Excerpt from a letter sent by Texas Democratic party's Chair to Texas's Secretary State today:
I am very disturbed that your office instructed local voter registrars to send over 80,000 of such letters so close to an election using what appears to be faulty data. If this problem had gone undetected, thousands of eligible voters could have been disenfranchised.
Can you please confirm for me that the decision by Harris County to not actually purge these voters from the voter registration list is the policy throughout the state? What measures is your office taking to ensure that every county voter registrar complies with this policy and that no voters who were included in that faulty list of over 80,000 are removed from the voter rolls? What procedures are to be followed if a voter has already been removed from the rolls due to faulty “deceased” data and shows up to vote?
Please respond to this request in writing without delay. I am hopeful that your office is doing its due diligence to correct this problem. If not, the Texas Democratic Party will not hesitate to take legal action to ensure that live, eligible voters will not be deprived of their right to vote.
Here's a link to an article in the Houston Chronicle about this Republican vote suppression effort in Texas. As the article points out, the purge didn't seem to extend to the more upscale neighborhoods of Houston.
