On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas announced that they are filing suit against the Texas Secretary of State for wrongly flagging registered voters as possible “non-citizens” — without disclosing what criteria they are actually using to make this assessment.

The lawsuit, which is also joined by the Campaign Legal Center and the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, names Secretary of State John Scott, and seeks injunctive relief for Texas voters.

BREAKING: We’re suing the state of Texas. @TXsecofstate continues to incorrectly identify registered voters as “non-citizens” and has refused to reveal records that disclose how these purged voters are being identified as such.

This is voter suppression. #TXDeservesBetter pic.twitter.com/3t5IINCke3

— ACLU of Texas (@ACLUTx) February 1, 2022

This lawsuit comes after a December report by the Texas Tribune, outlining the state’s previous disastrous efforts to hunt for non-citizens on the voter rolls.

“The state flagged nearly 100,000 voters for citizenship checks and set them up for possible criminal investigation based on flawed data that didn’t account for immigrants who gained citizenship,” wrote Alexa Ura. “After it became clear it was jeopardizing legitimate voter registrations, it was pulled into three federal lawsuits challenging its process. Former Secretary of State David Whitley lost his job amid the fallout. And the court battle ultimately forced the state to abandon the effort and rethink its approach to ensure naturalized citizens weren’t targeted.”

The secretary of state’s office is insisting that the new audit of the voter rolls is complying with a 2019 settlement that limited the number of voters they can investigate — but according to that report, problems have persisted.

“Scores of citizens are still being marked for review — and possible removal from the rolls,” noted the report. “Registrars in some of the state’s largest counties have found that a sizable number of voters labeled possible noncitizens actually filled out their voter registration cards at their naturalization ceremonies. In at least a few cases, the state flagged voters who were born in the U.S.”

This comes amid other renewed GOP efforts to restrict the voting process in Texas. Lawmakers passed a broad package of cutbacks to voting access in 2021 making it far harder to cast an absentee ballot, and Republicans are attempting to recruit thousands of volunteers to police Black and Hispanic polling places.

The start of early voting in Georgia came Monday morning, and just like in 2018, when Republican Brian Kemp was Secretary of State and in charge of managing elections, the lines are long again.

Secretary Kemp is now Governor Kemp, having won the election over Stacey Abrams amid what many believe was massive voter suppression, which appears to be back today.

Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter Tyler Estep posted this 70-second video to Twitter, which shows a huge line to get in to a Gwinnett County polling station in Suwanee, Georgia, where the population is under 21,000. He says some voters have been in line for four hours already and have yet to cast a ballot.

The video, which has gone viral, is 70-seconds long. Assuming the car was traveling at 20 miles-per-hour, the line is almost a half-mile long.

The line of voters at George Pierce Park in Suwanee…. pic.twitter.com/3stVPEuyZp

— tyler, the reporter (@ByTylerEstep) October 12, 2020

The video has already been seen over 300,000 times in well under two hours.

“Talked to several voters who had been there since 7,” Estep also tweeted, “and were still waiting as 11 am approached. They were told check-in was being ‘glitchy.’ Gwinnett [County spokesperson] said there was ‘intermittent issue with network access … that slowed processing down.'”

Here’s what some are saying:

Deputy editor and Pentagon Correspondent at Defense News:

There’s a temptation to look at this and go “it’s great to see Americans so dedicated to making sure they vote!” And then you realize it doesn’t need to be this hard to vote. It’s only this hard because it was made to be. https://t.co/z8OpKHBCGv

— Aaron Mehta (@AaronMehta) October 12, 2020

CNN’s Jim Sciutto:

Good that they’re so committed to vote, a shame they have to wait so long. I haven’t seen this in any other country I’ve lived in. https://t.co/bjmtdLPptJ

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 12, 2020

Political scientist:

No one should have to wait in a line this long in order to participate in our democratic process. This is shameful. https://t.co/AfaizyVO6L

— Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver) October 12, 2020

Staff writer at The Atlantic:

Georgia – the state, not the country https://t.co/3zVSijg9Gx

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) October 12, 2020

KQED Producer/Reporter:

If this isn’t voter suppression, what is? https://t.co/mHhhNJizIM

— Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) October 12, 2020

More:

This is what #VoterSuppression looks like in #Georgia -It should NOT be this hard to #vote but these determined Georgians must endure hours in line. #VoteBlue We’re with you Georgia, hang in there. #Democracy does not mean make it harder to #vote but corrupt GOP thinks this is ok https://t.co/uHwoskaK8e

— mintpattynyc (@mintpattynyc) October 12, 2020

This is what voter suppression looks like.

I guess that’s why some people are against voting by mail: then you can’t pull stunts like this. Unacceptable! https://t.co/QTY1phAdrr

— AukeHoekstra (@AukeHoekstra) October 12, 2020