Texas settles lawsuit over accusing 95,000 non-citizens of voting

Published April 28, 2019 10:16pm ET



The Texas secretary of state’s office will pay $450,000 in attorney’s fees to close a lawsuit related to its attempt to block nearly 100,000 people from voting due to their alleged lack of citizenship, according to a settlement.

“After months of litigation, the state has finally agreed to do what we’ve demanded from the start — a complete withdrawal of the flawed and discriminatory voter purge list, bringing this failed experiment in voter suppression to an end,” American Civil Liberties Union legal director for Texas Andre Segura said in a statement.

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