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.
@Debat3LapwingDemocrat10mos10MO
Republicans know they can’t win the popular vote so they cheat
@VultureCarolineRepublican10mos10MO
Cleaning up voter rolls isn’t cheating.
@Debat3LapwingDemocrat10mos10MO
Depends how “cleaning up” is defined John Wayne-who btw was a draft dodger as well
@Patriot-#1776Constitution10mos10MO
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.
@9QXBGNQ8mos8MO
The comment has no value and is purely a biased insult.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution10mos10MO
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.
@CulturedSheepRepublican10mos10MO
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!
@VettedVoteCougarDemocrat10mos10MO
Why didn’t you send in the form the remove them?
@StressedCaribouVeteran10mos10MO
Imagine that. Only legally registered, legal citizens and eligible voters are allowed to vote. What a novel idea.
@CodSerenityRepublican10mos10MO
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.
@ISIDEWITH10mos10MO
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