Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced that the state has removed over 1 million names from the Texas voter rolls, mainly people who moved out of state or died but including 6,500 who Abbott described as potential noncitizens.
“Illegal voting in Texas will never be tolerated,” Abbott said in a statement. “We will continue to actively safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote while also aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting.”
Abbott added in a social media post that the removed names are being passed on to the attorney general’s office for possible criminal charges.
it’s too bad the federal government can’t just be like “Well if you want to keep trying to restrict US citizens rights in ways that break the constitution, we are just going to ignore your electoral collage votes”. It’s not like the supreme court didn’t do that with Florida when they wanted to recount anyway.
The amount of effort TX puts into not having people vote is insane to me.
That being said, with how many times Texas has said it wants to secede from the US, at this point I’m not entirely sure why we don’t just let it. I know a lot of businesses are in Texas and its a lot of territory but, so much resources are wasted trying to get a state that obviously doesn’t want to play along, to do basic things like follow the law.
ammendum: Yes I know that’s technically against the constitution
Texas would go purple to blue if they didn’t fuck with the system. The US would never let them secede, they could give up their rights though if they want? They could become like Puerto Rico or Guam, that would be hilarious.
I agree that would be absolutely hilarious. They could match it with the Puerto Rico statehood as a flip, so instead of just accepting statehood, they could flip statuses so Texas is a territory and PR gets statehood.
I think we have a plan. Florida might want to jump on board with this too.