Former US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was seen at a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Greensboro, North Carolina on Tuesday, following her announcement that she is endorsing him and joining the Republican party – Reuters.
Texas's Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Democratic US President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday, alleging that the federal government was not providing the necessary assistance in verifying the citizenship status of some of its registered voters. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, accuses the Biden administration, specifically the Department of Homeland Security, of refusing to help determine the citizenship status of 450,000 out of the 17.9 million registered voters in the state. It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in US federal elections, and state and private reviews have found very few instances of such occurrences. However, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his supporters have claimed that large numbers of non-citizens could vote in the Nov. 5 election, where he faces Democrat Kamala Harris. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that his 2020 loss to Biden was due to widespread voter fraud. Paxton's office stated that he sent a letter earlier this month requesting the U.S. government to verify the citizenship status of individuals who may be unlawfully registered to vote in Texas by Oct. 19. When his request was not answered, he proceeded with the lawsuit. His office noted that there are nearly half a million voters whose citizenship status has not been verified, but acknowledged that the majority of these voters are likely citizens and thus eligible to vote.
"While the majority of the voters on the list are likely citizens who are eligible to vote, Texans have no way of knowing whether or not any of the voters on the list are non-citizens who are ineligible to vote without additional information," his office said.
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