Thousands of non-citizens and felons were removed from the Texas voter rolls since the implementation of a 2021 law that has been celebrated as a way to safeguard the state’s elections.
More than 1 million ineligible voters have been removed from the Lone Star State’s voter rolls, Governor Greg Abbott announced yesterday. The cleanup of the voter rolls, which was made possible by Senate Bill 1, resulted in over 6,500 non-citizens and more than 6,000 felons being removed.
“Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” Abbott stated. “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.”
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