Texas has removed more than 1.1 million ineligible voters from its voter rolls since Senate Bill 1 was signed into law in 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday.
They include over 134,000 people who moved out-of-state, over 457,000 who are deceased, and over 6,500 noncitizens.
Of the noncitizens removed, approximately 1,930 have a voting history — the secretary of state's office is in the process of sending all of those records to the Office of the Attorney General for investigation and potential legal action. Abbott last year signed House Bill 1243, which increases the penalty for illegal voting, including voting by noncitizens, to a second-degree felony.
"Election integrity is essential to our democracy," Abbott said in a press release.
"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," he added.
"We will continue to actively safeguard Texans' sacred right to vote while also aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting."
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