Republican leaders want to let the group vote now and present their documents later, an apparent contradiction to their long-running efforts.

It is a second-degree felony for a non-citizen to cast a vote in Texas. It's also illegal to knowingly lie about citizenship status while registering to vote in Texas. A 1996 federal law made it illegal for a non-citizen to vote in federal elections.

By Zachary Stieber Contributing Writer Officials in Arizona have discovered a flaw that allowed some 97,000 residents to vote in state and local races despite not providing proof of citizenship, which