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Harris County Attorney's Office
News Release
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
HARRIS COUNTY ATTORNEY VINCE RYAN
APPROVES END TO VOTER DEATH PURGES
Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan today issued a legal memorandum finding that the purge of allegedly dead voters directed by the Secretary of State was not lawful.
Ryan determined that the Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Don Sumner’s refusal to remove any voter from the voter rolls of Harris County based on the Texas Secretary of State’s transmission of a list of voters suspected of being deceased is “well founded and supported by the law.”
“The notice from the Secretary of State did not make the required determination that the voters on the list were deceased,” Ryan said. “Many people have come forward astounded that the government had notified their families that they were dead. Two Assistant County Attorneys in my office received this notice. This action by the Texas Secretary of State is outrageous, wrong, and unlawful.”
A copy of Ryan’s legal memorandum can be viewed at:
http://www.harriscountytx.gov/CmpDocuments/90/News%20Articles/Memo%20on%20voter%20rolls%20death%20purge.pdf
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