Texas Removes 1 Million Ineligible Voters From Rolls, Including Possible Noncitizens; Greg Abbott Purges Thousands Of Noncitizens, Numerous Dead People From Texas Voter Rolls

Texas Removes 1 Million Ineligible Voters From Rolls, Including Possible Noncitizens:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, announced Monday that the state has removed more than 1.1 million ineligible voters, including 6,500 potential noncitizens, from its rolls since 2021.

“Illegal voting in Texas will never be tolerated,” Abbott said in a press release. “We will continue to actively safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote while also aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting.”

Abbott signed Senate Bill 1 in 2021. The election integrity measure made it a felony to lie while registering to vote, banned “vote harvesting” and unsolicited distribution of mail-in ballots, and required officials to reject mail-in ballots with errors.

Since then, the state has removed from its voter rolls more than 457,000 dead people, more than 6,000 people with felony convictions, and 6,500 potential noncitizens — 1,930 of whom had a voting history.

“The secretary of state’s office is in the process of sending all 1,930 records to the attorney general’s office for investigation and potential legal action,” reads the release.

Legal noncitizens could have gotten a license from the Texas Department of Public Safety and since become a naturalized citizen, according to the secretary of state’s office. Officials would send these individuals notices asking them for proof of citizenship, and they are only removed if they fail to respond.

This is what happened with the 6,500 potential noncitizens registered to vote, according to the secretary of state’s office. Due to the possibility that this number could include noncitizens who have since been naturalized, the state is referring the registrations to the attorney general for investigation, but not necessarily prosecution.

Abbott signed House Bill 1243 last year, making illegal voting — including “voting by noncitizens” according to the release — a second degree felony. —>READ MORE HERE

Greg Abbott Purges Thousands Of Noncitizens, Numerous Dead People From Texas Voter Rolls:

Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that his state has purged more than one million ineligible voters from voter rolls in the past several years, including thousands of noncitizens.

Since the Republican governor signed Senate Bill 1 into law in September 2021, Texas officials have removed more than 1.1 million people from state voter rolls, according to a press release from the governor’s office. The number includes hundreds of thousands of deceased individuals, hundreds of thousands on the suspense list and more than 100,000 individuals who failed to respond to an address confirmation notice, among other people who were deemed ineligible.

The purge also included more than 6,500 noncitizens who had managed to be included on the voter rolls, according to the governor.

“Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” Abbott said in a Monday statement. “I have signed the strongest election laws in the nation to protect the right to vote and to crackdown on illegal voting.”

“These reforms have led to the removal of over one million ineligible people from our voter rolls in the last three years, including noncitizens, deceased voters, and people who moved to another state,” Abbott continued. “Illegal voting in Texas will never be tolerated. We will continue to actively safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote while also aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting.”

Senate Bill 1 was created with the intention of beefing up election integrity, according to the governor’s office. The bill — which is now law — established uniform statewide voting hours, banned drive-through voting, provided more transparency by allowing poll watchers to better observe details of the election process and expanded voting access for voters who require more assistance. —>READ MORE HERE

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