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Federal Judge Orders Texas To End 'Flawed' Effort To ID Noncitizen Voters

Texas officials later acknowledged that their list wrongly contained the names of U.S. citizens. The judge criticized what he called the state's threatening letters to suspect voters.

A federal judge in Texas ruled that state officials "created a mess" when they questioned the citizenship of about 98,000 voters and mistakenly concluded that many of those voters were not eligible to cast ballots.

The sharply written by U.S. District Judge Fred Biery of San Antonio ordered Texas officials to halt the removal of

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