Numbers Are HARD!

 Texas has over 18 million registered voters. More than 11 million voters cast ballots in 2024. The Texas voter rolls were compared to the federal citizenship rolls, known as SAVE. 2,274 voters were referred to the counties for review after that comparison. 578 were found to be citizens. 117 are still being reviewed. 7 have been indicted.

Those charged include Mexican citizen Carlos Salas Barrios, who was arrested for voting in the 2024 election, though his ballot was ultimately rejected, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice. Also charged was Nigerian national Joshua Nmelichukwu Akpom, who was arrested for making false statements in relation to naturalization, according to the release. Akpom voted illegally in the 2018 general election, but was not charged in relation to that due to the statute of limitations, according to the U.S. Department of Justice statement.

Nigerian national Helen Mayen Adams, Indian citizen Khalwinder Singh Bhengura, Mexican citizen Moises Anwar Arellano-Alba, Democratic Republic of the Congo national Celestin Katubadi, and Mexican citizen Rocio Thrasher were all charged with illegally voting in the 2024 election and false statements of citizenship to register to vote. Katubadi cast a provisional ballot that was ultimately rejected, the U.S. Department of Justice statement said.

So, of the seven, two filed provisional ballots which weren’t accepted, meaning only five apparently successfully voted.

And somehow the Republic still stands.

There are more than 18 million registered voters in Texas, and more than 11 million cast ballots in the November 2024 general election. Seven people make up a tiny fraction of that number.

About 0.000064% of 11 million. Hardly enough to establish a national emergency, or to compromise national security. Or to justify any kind of election monitoring. We are still a nation of laws. Sort of.

(And how do you monitor 11 million voters, to make sure 5 of them don’t vote? With ICE or DOJ employees, I mean.)