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Cecilia Castellano , a Democratic candidate for a seat in the Texas State House , was targeted by police in August .
She says she was "caught off-guard" by police who raided her home for evidence of noncitizen voting.
The Texas attorney general's office is investigating "vote harvesting," an opaque provision of a 2021 voter integrity bill.
Republicans have claimed without evidence that undocumented immigrants could tilt the scales in favor of Democrats this November .
But experts say that simply isn't true.
Leaders in a handful of GOP -led states have wielded the threat of noncitizen voting to justify mass purges from their voter rolls.
In Virginia , Gov. Glenn Youngkin said he removed more than 6,000 people suspected of being noncitizens.
But a Washington Post investigation found not a single example of noncitizens voting during his term.
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