德州选民公民身份核查117宗移交调查 入籍华人可上网自查登记状态
德州州务卿办公室把全州约1800万登记选民送进联邦“系统性外国人身份核验”（SAVE）数据库比对，首轮标出2724名“可能的非公民”，经过人工复核与各县调查，最终有117宗被移交州总检察长办公室调查。
复核结果显示，首轮被标记者中有578人证明了自己是美国公民，其中506人被标记的原因是护照信息在首轮比对之后才录入系统，州务卿办公室已通知各县为这些人恢复登记。
州务卿罗伯特·豪登表示，公民身份是在德州投票的法定条件，州里有责任确保只有合格选民投票，也要保证合格公民能够行使投票权。
需要提醒入籍华人选民的是：移交调查不等于已经认定违法，117宗案件的最终结果目前尚未公开；平时可上州务卿网站VoteTexas.gov查询自己的登记状态，如收到县选民登记处关于公民身份的信件，应按信中期限提交证明材料，以免登记被注销。
Texas Refers 117 Voter Citizenship Cases for Investigation; Naturalized Chinese Voters Can Check Registration Status Online
The Texas Secretary of State's office ran the state's roughly 18 million registered voters through the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. The first pass flagged 2,724 people as possible noncitizens; after manual review and county investigations, 117 cases were ultimately referred to the state Attorney General's office for investigation.
The review showed that 578 of those initially flagged proved they are U.S. citizens. Of those, 506 had been flagged because their passport information was entered into the system only after the first comparison, and the Secretary of State's office has told counties to restore their registrations.
Secretary of State Robert Howden said citizenship is a legal requirement for voting in Texas, and that the state has a duty both to ensure only eligible voters cast ballots and to make sure eligible citizens can exercise their right to vote.
Naturalized Chinese-American voters should note that a referral for investigation is not a finding of wrongdoing, and the final outcomes of the 117 cases have not yet been made public. Voters can check their registration status on the Secretary of State's website, VoteTexas.gov, and anyone who receives a citizenship letter from their county voter registrar should submit documentation by the deadline in the letter to avoid having their registration canceled.
来源：德州州务卿办公室
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图片来源：位于 Austin 的德州议会大厦。LoneStarMike 摄，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY 3.0。 / The Texas State Capitol in Austin. Photo by LoneStarMike, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
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