TEXS SECRETARY OF STATE ISSUES A NEW ADVISORY AND NOT A NEW RULE
APPARANTLY TO AID VOTER FRAUD USING THE LOGICAL FALLACY OF THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE
BUT THIS LOGICAL FALLACY CAN ALSO BE CHALLENGED IN COURTS AND POLL STATION STAFF PROSECUTED FOR USING IT TO ALLOW A CRIMINAL OFFENCE
A new advisory by the Texas Secretary of States uses the logical fallacy of the absence of evidence or argument from ignorance to give the appearance of legality to allowing non citizens to vote but which exposes poll station staff to prosecution and the elections results to legal challenges.
People who present a non citizen driving licnese do not necessarily belong to the category of non citizens who have been naturalized, have registered to vote, and are waiting for a driving license.
They can belong to the category of non citizens who will never be naturalized, not registered to vote and are not waiting for a driving license.
To allow this group to vote knowingly is a criminal offence.
So what criteria amounts to knowingly?
The bar is set low. It is a mere reason to believe that a non citizen is voting using deceptive practizes.
Such a reason to believe is the non citizen driving license.
It must trigger further investigation and the collection of the relevant evidence.
Rules state any "reason to believe a voter is not a US citizen" has to be brought to the attention of the country voter registrar to allow for further investigation.
A non citizen driving license constitutes is a reason to believe just that and so a requirement to investigate further in order to identify who is a citizen using a non citizen driving license who has been naturalized and registered to vote and who is not.
If poll station staff fail to ensure non citizens can vote because they do not do their job according to the rules and training manuals and collect the evidence, they can be prosecuted.
The criminal offence of knowingly allowing non citizens to vote is clear.
Knowingly includes knowingly not collecting the evidence, knowingly and deliberately ommitting checks when there is a reason to carry them out.
They have been informed in the manuals and other directives of the requirement to check who is a citizen. They cannot claim an argument from ignorance because they have been told to go through a check list to dispel ignorance.
Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. The fallacy is committed when one asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true. If a proposition has not yet been proven true, one is not entitled to conclude, solely on that basis, that it is false, and if a proposition has not yet been proven false, one is not entitled to conclude, solely on that basis, that it is true.[1][
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
From media
The advisory adds that if an election judge or clerk has reason to believe a voter is not a United States citizen, they “may bring this to the attention of the county voter registrar.”
It also reminds election workers that “it is state criminal offense to knowingly allow a noncitizen to vote.”
“It’s important to have clarity and make sure all voters are eligible citizens,” Christine Welborn, president of election accountability group Advancing Integrity, told Texas Scorecard. “The 2025 Texas Legislature needs to pass bills that ensure only citizens are voting in Texas elections in the future.”
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We’re assuming this person was a not a citizen when they got their drivers license, became a naturalized citizen and registered to vote, but still doesn’t have their new drivers license,” said Phillips in a video shared by Lisa Hendrickson, a Denton County resident and member of the State Republican Executive Committee.
“So if they’re on your poll pad, they’ve gone through the application and state approval process through the secretary of state’s office. So according to the secretary of state, they’re a citizen and eligible to vote,” Phillips concluded.
https://dallasexpress.com/state/texas-now-accepts-noncitizen-licenses-as-voter-id/
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