Texas removes more than 1 million people from voter rolls
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that over 1 million people have been removed from the state's voter rolls since 2021 to maintain voter integrity.
- The removal includes over 6,500 noncitizens and 457,000 deceased individuals, as stated by Abbott's office.
- Critics argue that laws like Senate Bill 1 harm voting rights and could disenfranchise marginalized voters.
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Texas voter purge may be sending a chilling message, lawmakers and advocates warn
Voters must check if they’re still registered or if they have been placed on a suspend list, which may result in “more barriers for their votes to count,” a Democratic state legislator said.
Election experts cautious as Abbott touts voter roll purge
By Juan Salinas II, The Texas Tribune, and Natalia Contreras, Votebeat and The Texas TribuneTexas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Monday that the state has removed roughly a million people from its voter rolls since he signed a legislative overhaul of election laws in 2021.“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 illeg…
Texas raises alarm over ‘illegal voting’ by removing a million people from voter rolls
A little over 5% of the names on Texas state voter rolls have been deleted. Governor Greg Abbott announced this week that since he signed a new package of laws in 2021 aimed at restricting voting, more than a million names have been removed from the list of potential voters, including people who moved out of state, those who died, or those whose current address cannot be confirmed, among other reasons. The process, which some critics claim dispr…
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