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.

  • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Over 6,000 who have a felony conviction, over 457,000 who are dead,

    Ok, those two are fine because that’s the law. Dead people don’t need to vote, and felons lose the right. Don’t get me started on how some felonies shouldn’t count, but the law is what it is. These should be fully auditable and the info should be publicly released because in theory there is no funny business… right?

    over 463,000 whose addresses may have changed and who did not respond to a request for confirmation,

    This is the voter manipulation front and center. Forcing people to take an action will hit a LOT of legitimate voters. This will overwhelmingly affect immigrants who can’t read English. It’ll also hit the young population that are less enthusiastic about voting.

    over 134,000 who confirmed they moved, and over 19,000 who requested to cancel their registration.

    These two are whatever… assuming those moving confirmation ones aren’t just anonymously submitted. If the 134k is “they registered in a new district” then whatever… but why hide the data?

    Those removed from the voter rolls also include 65,000 who failed to respond to a notice requesting that they attest to their eligibility to vote after a secretary of state investigation indicated they may be ineligible.

    May be ineligible, not confirmed ineligible. Shouldn’t the confirmation have been done?

    Over 6,500 were removed because they are “potential noncitizens,” and of those, about 1,900 had cast votes in Texas elections, according to a statement from Abbott.

    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?

    • pelespiritOPMEnglish
      6·
      2 months 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.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      2·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know how it is in Texas, but ballots here in Washington are specific to each individual.