BREAKING: Texas removes 1 million ineligible voters from voter roll

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Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday that since the enactment of Senate Bill 1 in 2021, Texas has removed over one million individuals from the state’s voter rolls.

This includes people who have moved out of state, are deceased or are noncitizens. The process of removing ineligible voters will continue ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Abbott released the following statement:

“Election integrity is essential to our democracy. 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. 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. 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.”

Below is a chart of the categories of voters that were removed from the registry, provided by the Office of the Texas Governor:

Over 6,500 noncitizens
Over 6,000 voters who have a felony conviction
Over 457,000 deceased people
Over 463,000 voters on the suspense list
Over 134,000 voters who responded to an address confirmation notice that they had moved
Over 65,000 voters who failed to respond to a notice of examination
Over 19,000 voters who requested to cancel their registration

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