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Texas removes 1 million people from voter rolls

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.

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14 Replies

 @Debat3LapwingDemocrat from Arizona  commented…2yrs2Y

Republicans know they can’t win the popular vote so they cheat

 @VultureCarolineRepublicanfrom Illinois  disagreed…2yrs2Y

Cleaning up voter rolls isn’t cheating.

 @Debat3LapwingDemocrat from Arizona  disagreed…2yrs2Y

Depends how “cleaning up” is defined John Wayne-who btw was a draft dodger as well

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…2yrs2Y

I have nothing against dodging drafts for unjust wars like Korea and Vietnam. It's an act of self-defence. Also, John Wayne has nothing to do with this conversation.

@9QXBGNQ from California  reported…2yrs2Y

The comment has no value and is purely a biased insult.

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  disagreed…2yrs2Y

It is a curious truth that most lies have a fragment of truth to them. Truth and sincerity, as Benjamin Franklin said, have a certain luster that cannot be perfectly counterfeited. So artful and skilled liars often season their fabrications with a hint of the truth, to conceal the falsehood, and make it less obvious. But your lie is neither skilled nor artful; it has no fragment of truth to it. It is the exact *OPPOSITE* of the truth. If I told a lie like that, I would fear that fire would rain down from Heaven and consume me. That's how twisted it is.

 @CulturedSheepRepublican from Kansas  commented…2yrs2Y

Finally! My parents signed up to vote by mail in Dallas County and 2 years after they died I was still receiving ballots for mail in voting ….then I moved. They also died in Dallas County…..there needs to be a better system for culling names from the voter rolls!

 @StressedCaribouVeteranfrom Wisconsin  commented…2yrs2Y

Imagine that. Only legally registered, legal citizens and eligible voters are allowed to vote. What a novel idea.

 @CodSerenityRepublican from New York  commented…2yrs2Y

The vast majority were people that moved or died. The concern is people who they claim are not legal citizens.

And a bigger concern is how they understaff the DPS to prevent new residents from getting ID.

 @ISIDEWITHasked…2yrs2Y

Considering nearly 7,000 noncitizens were found to have registered illegally, do you believe stringent voter roll purges are justified to protect election integrity?

 @RIPCharlieRepublican from Pennsylvania  answered…7mos7MO

I think what we really need is photo IDs to vote

 @ISIDEWITHasked…2yrs2Y

Is it fair to remove voters from the rolls if they don't respond to certification forms, or should there be more effort to reach out to them?

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