DAC illegals voting in Texas?

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https://www.dailywire.com/news/38043/watch-texas-poll-worker-tells-undercover-reporter-ryan-saavedra

"Project Veritas’ undercover journalist, posing as the girlfriend of a potential DACA voter, visited a polling station in Travis County, Texas to ask election officials if he could vote.

“If he has his ID that’s all he needs. If he’s registered,” an election worker told the undercover journalist.

“Right. It doesn’t matter that he’s not a citizen?” the PV journalist replied, adding that she had heard on the internet that he could not vote.

“No, Don’t pay any attention to that. Bring him up here,” the official said.

Another woman, who appeared to be an election official, said that there was not an issue with DACA recipients voting, saying, "we got a lot of 'em."

“You’ve got a lot of them?” the journalist asked.

“Mmhmm,” the woman replied. “From early voter. We’ve got tons of them. Tons of DACA voters. Okay.”

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Disturbing. A friend of mine from the Boston area (sanctuary city) has a video of man who had two different addresses (his license showed one and the voter information book had another address listed). The guy went in to vote twice. An election worker allowed him to vote with the information they had in their book, then he went back in to a different precinct line and used his information on his license to vote again. When he went back in twice, the election worker behind the desk called over a Supervisor who said the man was fine even though there was a discrepancy in his address on his license and the census information they had , and that he didn’t need to fill out anything. The man even said to the 2nd election worker “I was born in Columbia.” My friend reported it and sent in the video, but doubt anything happened.
 
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Stuff like this is handled after the polls close. Ballots are taken from the polling place by two of the officers from said polling place to the election HQ where they are counted, and discrepancies are dealt with. The irregularities are dealt with by actual election officials - not the volunteers who get a half-day training to run a polling place.
 
Oops, forgive me. I didn’t clarify. I meant provisional ballot. Provisional ballots aren’t anonymous.

The video got some good sound bytes for people who want to be mad about something but it doesn’t show anything illegal happening. The worker said “IF he is registered, and he has ID, he can vote” The worker is inviting the fellow up to check his registration status - to see if the fellow’s on the rolls. Reasonably speaking, being on the rolls is proof of citizenship. The false premise gotcha (my boyfriend is DACA but also registered) is a lie, that was used to confuse a poll worker who likely got a single day training (if Texas poll workers receive as much as we do in California, that is).

These poll workers are clearly flustered and just responding with their training - If you’re on the rolls, and you have ID, you can vote. That’s all they know, and all they’re trained to look for. Confusing people with a trick question is nothing. I mean, unless the video then goes on to show that the guy is in fact registered, but also in fact not a citizen. But that would be a problem with the election office.
 
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This is the same as saying “my boyfriend is only 16, but he’s registered. Can he vote? We have his ID”.

Yeah, if you’re on the rolls, and you have ID, you can vote. But is this kid legit only 16 AND ALSO on the rolls? I think not. All we got was the set-up lie. Not the conclusion of the encounter. So we can get all mad about the poll worker saying “Yes, come vote” to who they think is the 16 year old kid.

But the bottom line is, if he’s truly 16, he won’t be on the rolls. And there’ll be no vote cast by him. And if he IS on the rolls, he’s 18 or over. So nothing illegal was done even if the poll worker thought he was 16.

This is partisan hackery trying to spook people into thinking voter irregularity happens frequently. When statistics show that, while it does happen, the level to which is happens is so incredibly miniscule. And when it is found out, it’s prosecuted.
 
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But each ballot doesn’t have to map to someone in the registration rolls to be counted. I’m pretty sure the ballot counting machine doesn’t care whether you are registered or not - it just scans and counts. Theoretically, a poll worker could just give someone that is not registered or registered under two different addresses, a ballot and either assign it to someone who hasn’t voted or don’t assign it at all.
 
Hypothetically, sure. But hypothetically, ANYTHING can happen.

Hypothetically, the polling workers close down the polls after voting stops. Then they rip open a few cases of ballots, spend an hour marking them all, and then take all the real ballots, and their twice-again number of fraudulent ballots, to the election office to be counted.

But realistically, what they have is a list of all people registered to vote in that precinct. And then someone comes up and say “I’m so-and-so, I’m here to vote” and they cross-reference that to their list of registered voters. If they meet the requirement, they’re shuffled along with a ballot. They vote. They put the ballot in the box. And then they get a sticker. The polling worker’s jobs are to make sure, to the best of their ability, that nobody who is eligible to vote according to their roll of voters, puts a ballot in that box.

I mean, I don’t know how Texas does it. But my first voting experience, I was 18. I just swung by the nearest polling place on my way home from work. I got there and said “Hi, I’m Rhubarb, I’d like to vote please.” They said “Oooh, you’re not on the list. Are you registered?” I said “Yep, I registered when I turned 18” They said “Well you’re not on the list… Where do you live?” And I said “I live here.” And they said “Oh, you’re at the wrong precinct then. Go to that one, and vote there.”

And I know when I was a poll worker, all six of us were hyper-vigilant about all voters being on our rolls.
 
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Ignorance of the law is not an affirmative defense to the law. As an election volunteer or judge, you are responsible for knowing the law with regards to your work at that polling place. Even if no fraud was intended, and even if no fraud was actually committed, the door has been opened by a statement suggesting that illegal votes were cast, so prudence demands that measures be taken to ensure the integrity of the process.
 
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No statement of an illegal vote was cast. We have a statement that poll workers were confused and repeatedly said “if you are registered (which means you are a citizen) and you have ID, you may vote.” The worker didn’t show any ignorance of the law. The worker knows per her training that if a person is on the registration rolls, they must be a citizen. That’s where the reasoning can stop. If registered, then citizen. They don’t need to expound anymore than that.

We didn’t see a ballot end up in the hands of an eligible voter. We didn’t see any ineligible voter cast a vote. We saw nothing that showed the integrity of the process was compromised.

In fact, we saw the poll worker say “if he’s having trouble, maybe he isn’t registered”. Which is evidence that thus far, the fake DACA guy hasn’t been able to cast any votes - because he’s been having trouble. We see the worker saying “bring him up and show his ID”. That doesn’t mean “here’s a ballot.” That means go see what the deal is, see if he’s eligible. And that is exactly what a poll worker is supposed to do. Because when he gets there, they’ll see one of two things. (1) The guy will give his true name, show his ID, and go vote. If he claims he’s a DACA guy, that’s no longer the poll worker’s worry. He’s met the criteria to vote. For all the poll worker knows, he’s lying about being a DACA recipient. Or confused. Either way, criteria met. (Which is true, he’s lying) Or (2) he’ll give a false name, show a false ID, and be denied a ballot.

There’s also no ignorance of the law being claimed - the worker knows that if they’re registered, they can vote. Because to be registered, one must needs be a citizen. End of line. QED. Doesn’t matter what some rando stranger they’ve never met says.

If I declared I was a citizen of Norway and not the US as I was voting, they’d say “Well, he’s on the rolls. And he meets all the criteria. Go for it, kid.” Or perhaps, the Inspector would come over, say I need to cast a provisional ballot. Which I would do. Then the election office would double-check my criteria.

For all we know, they did give the fake-DACA kid a provisional ballot. Or they checked his status, he was on the rolls, and they let him vote. Which would’ve been a legal ballot cast by a legal citizen.

I’d bet you fifty cents they got the sound byte, and then she said “okay he’s out in the car, I’ll go tell him he can vote” and then they left. Because they were more interested in spoon-feeding partisan hackery than showing anything substantial.
 
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