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Texas is the latest state to clean out its voter rolls ahead of the election, removing over 1 million ineligible voters.

From the Office of the Texas Governor. Governor Greg Abbott today announced that since signing Senate Bill 1 into law in 2021, Texas has removed over one million people from the state’s voter rolls, including people who moved out-of-state, are deceased, and are noncitizens. That removal process has been, and will continue to be, ongoing.

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“Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” said Governor Abbott. “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. The Secretary of State and county voter registrars have an ongoing legal requirement to review the voter rolls, remove ineligible voters, and refer any potential illegal voting to the Attorney General’s Office and local authorities for investigation and prosecution. 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.”

Since Governor Abbott signed Senate Bill 1 into law in 2021, Texas has removed over 1 million people from the voter rolls, including:

Over 6,500 noncitizens
Over 6,000 voters who have a felony conviction
Over 457,000 deceased people
Over 463,000 voters on the suspense list
Over 134,000 voters who responded to an address confirmation notice that they had moved
Over 65,000 voters who failed to respond to a notice of examination
Over 19,000 voters who requested to cancel their registration
Total Over 1.1 million

Of the over 6,500 noncitizens removed from the voter rolls, approximately 1,930 have a voter history. The Secretary of State’s office is in the process of sending all 1,930 records to the Attorney General’s Office for investigation and potential legal action. To better crackdown on illegal voting, Governor Abbott signed House Bill 1243 into law last year, increasing the penalty for illegal voting, including voting by noncitizens, to a second-degree felony.

In 2021, Governor Abbott signed Senate Bill 1Senate Bill 1113, and House Bill 574 into law. Senate Bill 1 elevated lying while registering to vote to a state jail felony, criminalized ballot harvesting, required the Secretary of State to conduct randomized audits of elections every two years, banned distribution of unsolicited mail-in ballot applications and ballots, and required ID for mail-in ballots. Senate Bill 1113 empowered the Secretary of State to withhold funds from counties that fail to remove noncitizens from their voter roll. House Bill 574 made it a second-degree felony to knowingly count invalid votes or refuse to count valid votes.

In 2017, the Governor signed Senate Bill 5, which increased the penalty for election workers who knowingly permit noncitizens and other ineligible persons to vote.

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(Press release from the Office of the Texas Governor. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Greg Abbott, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81120269)

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Donna Phillips
August 28, 2024

Thank you Lord for Gov. Abbott! We pray over him and our Texas Leadership and ask God’s favor be with them as they are pursuing Righteousness and the Constitution. Bless them Lord. I pray You make their paths smooth like butter (job 29. 6), and Wisdom and Favor follow them like your Mercy and Grace, does. I pray you open more doors and grant them quick resolve in all their Lawsuits and Righteous Bills for us.

I am grateful they are Courageous and Brave and represent Texas. Thank You Lord!

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Darlene Estlow
August 28, 2024

Father, thank you for Gov. Abbot’s move to bring about honesty to our elections. May more states adopt this attitude of cleaning up the voting rolls.

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Cynthia Lawrence
August 28, 2024

Praise the Lord! Thank You Lord for moving on the hearts of those to make the corrections needed to protect our voting rights! Glory to the Most High God!

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