Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced that since the introduction of Senate Bill 1 in 2021, more than 1 million ineligible voters’ names have been removed from the state’s voter rolls.
The names removed include those who have moved out of Texas, those who are deceased, and non-citizens. The governor’s office has indicated that the removal process is ongoing.
According to a edition From the governor’s office, this process is still ongoing.
“Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” Abbot said in the statement. “I signed the strongest election laws in the country to protect the right to vote and crack down on illegal voting…
“Illegal voting in Texas will never be tolerated. We will continue to actively protect Texans’ sacred right to vote while aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has revealed that since the introduction of Senate Bill 1 in 2021, more than 1 million names of ineligible voters have been purged from the state’s voter rolls.
In March, Abbot had declined to serve as Donald Trump’s running mate for 2024, in favor of staying in his state to address the border crisis. The governor warned that the U.S. was in “imminent danger” from an “invasion” of “known and unknown terrorists, who are crossing the border every day.”
The governor’s office reported that more than 1 million names have been removed from voter rolls since SB 1 was signed three years ago.
More than 6,500 people were removed for not being citizens, of which 1,930 have a prior voting history.
The Secretary of State’s office is currently forwarding this information to the Attorney General’s office for review and “potential legal action.”
More than 457,000 names were of deceased individuals and more than 134,000 confirmed they no longer lived in Texas.
In addition, more than 6,000 people convicted of a felony were removed, as were 463,000 voters on the waiting list, as well as more than 65,000 voters who did not respond to a notice of investigation.
More than 19,000 voters have requested to cancel their voter registration.
Abbott stressed that the secretary of state and the province’s voter registrars have an “ongoing legal obligation” to audit voter rolls, remove ineligible voters and refer suspected cases of illegal voting to the attorney general’s office and local authorities.
In March, Abbot had already declined to be Donald Trump’s running mate for 2024, saying he preferred to stay in his state to address the border crisis.
The governor warned that the US is in “imminent danger” from an “invasion” of “known and unknown terrorists who cross the border every day.”
The governor’s office reported that more than 1 million names have been removed from voter rolls since SB 1 was signed three years ago.
He said he could best help Trump “by being a great governor of Texas.”
The presidential candidate had previously mentioned Abbott as a possible vice presidential candidate, saying he was “absolutely” on his shortlist.
But Abbott flatly rejected any suggestion that he would run in an interview with 60 Minutes, saying “no” when asked if he would run alongside the former president on the Republican ticket.
Abbott also defended the use of the word “invasion” to describe the thousands of migrants crossing the southern border into Texas at record rates every day.
