As Gov. Abbott decries possible voter fraud, activists question the data
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Abbott's announcement comes 5 years after a botched 2019 attempt to purge up to 100,000 suspected 'noncitizen' voters. Activists cast doubt on the state's data.

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.

  • @pelespiritOPMEnglish
    6•21 days ago

    These won’t meaningfully contribute to the numbers but i’m surprised they can know who casted votes. The ballot i’m handed on voting day doesn’t have any unique identifying information on it. It’s just a form that’s sitting on a table and my name gets crossed off a list when I go to vote and give my name. So how do they know that those 1900 voted?

    They always know who voted, but they’re not supposed to know who you voted for. This is to bar cheating.

    1 million votes is a lot of voters to purge since there isn’t even a lot of fraud to begin with. This is definitely cheating just by looking at that number.