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This week, Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos confirmed that state Attorney General Ken Paxton was looking into a case where the state Democratic Party allegedly sent out mailers to noncitizens requesting they register to vote with documents that had the citizenship box checked off. Instead of covering this case (which had been known about since late last week) both ABC News and CBS News pushed Democratic claims of voter suppression in Georgia by the GOP.
According to a Washington Times report published October 18, “The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants with the box citizenship already checked ‘Yes,’ according to new complaints filed Thursday asking prosecutors to see what laws may have been broken.”
Between October 18 and October 23, not a single liberal broadcast network (ABC, CBS, and NBC) covered the accusation. Yet, both ABC and CBS ran reports suggesting the Georgia Republican Party was trying the suppress the African-American turnout for the gubernatorial election.
On October 18 (the same day the formal complaints against the Texas Democratic Party were reported), CBS congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes used Democratic Party talking points to smear the GOP candidate for governor, Brian Kemp. “Democrat Stacy Abrams, who is vying to become the nation's first female African American governor, accuses her GOP opponent, Brian Kemp, of trying to restrict black voting,” she repeated during CBS Evening News.
On Tuesday, October 23, it was ABC’s turn to mislead their viewers about what was going on in Georgia. “And in Georgia tonight, where there are many long lines, the Republican candidate, the Secretary of State Brian Kemp, is facing accusations of trying to suppress the vote,” announced sensations anchor David Muir during World News Tonight.
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