By ALEJANDRO DE LA GARZA for TIME
President Trump returned to a favorite, often-debunked assertion on Sunday when he claimed there was “rampant” voter fraud in Texas and “all over the country.”
“58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote,” the President tweeted Sunday morning. “These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID!”
Those numbers are mischaracterizations of an announcement made by the Texas secretary of state’s office on Friday. It said it would be sending local election officials a list of 95,000 registered voters who, the office suggests, should have their citizenship status verified by local authorities, reported the Texas Tribune. Of those, 58,000 are shown to have voted at least once over a 22-year period, from 1996 to 2018, according to the secretary of state’s office.
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