“Illegal Voting In Texas Will Never Be Tolerated” – Texas Removes Over 1 Million People From Voter Rolls
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Texas is cleaning up its voter rolls.
They just removed over 1 million people from the rolls.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said, “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, 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.”
More than a million people have been removed from Texas’s voter registration rolls since the last presidential election, the state announced Monday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said in a statement that the removals represent an effort 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 said. “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.”
About half of the voters removed have died, requested to be be taken off or are living in another state, based on figures from the governor’s office. Nearly 7,000 were noncitizens who had registered illegally, and about 6,000 were convicted felons unable to vote.
About 463,000 were on what Texas calls its “suspense list,” where counties place voters who don’t respond to requested certification forms.
The government has referred cases of ineligible voters who participated in elections to Attorney General Ken Paxton for prosecution.
The Texas government has referred cases of ineligible voters participating in an election to Attorney General Ken Praxton for prosecution.
“The Secretary of State and county voter registrars have an ongoing legal requirement to review the voter rolls, remove ineligible voters, and refer any potential illegal voting to the Attorney General’s Office and local authorities for investigation and prosecution,” Abbott wrote.