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HOT | Texas Officials Claim About Citizenship of 95,000 Is Called Into Doubt The New York Times - Duration: 3:51.
HOT | Texas Officials Claim About Citizenship of 95,000 Is Called Into Doubt The New York Times
A claim made last week by the Texas secretary of state — that had a citizenship status that could not be determined — appeared to fall apart on Tuesday when local election officials said many of the people were known to be United States citizens.
Some registered to vote when they applied for a drivers license at the Texas Department of Public Safety, which requires them to prove citizenship status to state officials. Others registered at naturalization ceremonies, a data point to which state officials said they did not have access.
Election officials in Harris County, home to Houston, said they received 30,000 names — the largest single batch of potential noncitizen voters — from the secretary of states office on Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, they had determined that roughly 400 of those names were duplicates and 60 percent so far of the others were United States citizens.
We are not willing to conclude at this point that we know of anybody on this list who is not a United States citizen, Douglas Ray, special assistant attorney for Harris County, said. We may determine that at a later time, and we are going to investigate that very carefully, but as you can tell by the numbers, so far things aint looking good for this list, referring to the states claim.
Local officials reported similar findings on Tuesday in Fort Bend County, outside of Houston; Travis County, home to the state capital, Austin; and Williamson County, outside of Austin. All said they had been instructed by the secretary of states office on Tuesday to disregard the names of voters who registered at state public safety offices.
On Tuesday, the office of David Whitley, who was appointed secretary of state in December by Gov. Greg Abbott, said in a statement that it was continuing to work with local officials to assist them in verifying eligibility of Texas voters.
This is to ensure that any registered voters who provided proof of citizenship at the time they registered to vote will not be required to provide proof of citizenship as part of the counties examination, the statement said.
In an announcement last Friday, Mr. Whitleys office questioned the citizenship status of 95,000 voters. That finding grew out of an 11 month investigation by the secretary of states office and the Texas Department of Public Safety, which declined to comment on Tuesday.
Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican who has , quickly amplified that announcement with a pledge to investigate the names on the list. A spokeswoman for his office did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
Democrats and voting rights advocates expressed skepticism about the states claims last week, pointing to the possibility of administrative error as well as the states history of voter suppression.
Voter registration in many Texas counties is handled by the tax assessor, a holdover from the Jim Crow practice of collecting a poll tax, Mr. Ray said. Poll taxes were abolished by the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1964.
Kristen Clarke, the president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, called the problems that arose on Tuesday an unsurprising development. She said Mr. Paxton had been reckless and irresponsible to race forward with broad, sweeping allegations without conducting full, due diligence.
Another group, the League of United Latin American Citizens, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday that accused Mr. Paxton and Mr. Whitley of violating the federal Voting Rights Act.
Mr. Davis, in Williamson County, said his office received a list of 2,067 names this week, including 34 duplicates. It began a very methodical and very deliberate and careful investigation into the remaining names and found many whose citizenship was not in question.
We found some records where two things existed at once, Mr. Davis said. One was the D.P.S. had identified them as potential noncitizens, but also these same people had registered to vote at the D.P.S. and so had been verified to be citizens.
Compounding problems for local officials is the fact that the so called list is not actually a list.
John Oldham, the elections administrator in Fort Bend County, said four of his employees were combing through documents related to 8,035 people that his office received on Monday.
In Travis County, Bruce Elfant, the tax assessor collector and voter registrar, said his office was trying to organize the jumble of information it received on 4,500 voters into a usable format. He said that even a cursory review of the information they received turned up a significant number of people who the secretary of state has now told them to remove.
I said to the secretary of states office this morning, It would have been nice if you sent it in a spreadsheet, he said. They told me, Well, we didnt. A lot of things would have been nice, I guess.
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Texas State University Hosts 29th Annual Hostage Negotiation Training - Duration: 2:08.
A hostage negotiator and his team work to calm tensions and bring a standoff to a peaceful
conclusion.
But this is a training simulation, hosted by the school of criminal justice at
Texas State University.
This competition brings more than 300 law enforcement officers from around Texas, the
U.S. and even as far away as Europe and Asia.
Police Psychologist Michael McMains, helped launch this annual training 29 years ago.
"It puts one negotiation team against another, to help sharpen their skills and become better
at their craft," says McMains.
"I say it's a competition but this is probably the best training we'll get all
year because it's so intel driven, they try to make it as real as possible."
In this facility near the San Marcos airport, the competing teams of hostage negotiators
are in one room, while Texas State students, playing the role of hostage takers are in
a separate building.
"They've all got the same script, they've all got the same timeline, and that allows
the judges to evaluate them to see what their communication skills are like, what their
team functioning is like, whether they're in their roles correctly," says McMains.
"What better place to learn the good and the bad points than in a practice situation
like this," says Lewis.
This training is critical because when negotiators can initiate a conversation in a hostage situation,
there is a 95% chance no one gets hurt.
"What happens in negotiations is you step back, you let people emote, you listen to
them very closely and that process helps bring that tension level down and that anxiety down,"
This scenario training has proved so effective to help negotiators get better at what they
do, many of these officers have been coming here for more than 20 years.
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