Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced Monday that the state has removed more than 1 million ineligible voters from voter rolls since signing Senate Bill 1 into law in 2021.
SB1 1 1 The bill aimed to “preserve the integrity of Texas' elections” by standardizing voting hours across the state and banning drive-thru voting and unsolicited requests for mail-in ballots.
“Illegal voting will never be tolerated in Texas.”
Texas has removed from its rolls people who are non-citizens, have died or who have moved out of state and are no longer residents, the release said. press release From Mr Abbott's office.
More than 6,500 of those removed from the voter rolls were foreign nationals, and Abbott's office claimed 1,930 of them – about 30% – had voted in previous elections.
“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 possible legal action,” the press release stated.
More than 6,000 of those removed from Texas' voter rolls had been convicted of a felony, 457,000 were deceased and 463,000 were on the pending list.
The announcement said the removal process is still ongoing.
“Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” Abbott declared.
“I signed the toughest elections bill in the nation to protect the right to vote and crack down on voter fraud,” Abbott said. “These reforms have resulted in more than one million ineligible voters being removed from the voter rolls over the past three years, including foreign nationals, deceased voters and people who have moved to other states.”
He added, “The Secretary of State and county registrars of voters have an ongoing legal obligation to review voter rolls, remove ineligible voters, and refer potential illegal voters to the Attorney General's office and local authorities for investigation and prosecution. Illegal voting will never be tolerated in Texas. We will aggressively protect Texans' sacred right to vote and aggressively protect our elections from illegal votes.”
Meanwhile, on Monday, a federal judge in Texas 2 week stay In response to a lawsuit filed by 16 Republican-led states, including Texas, the Biden-Harris administration's “Keeping Families Together” program, a large-scale amnesty process for spouses and stepchildren of illegal immigrants who are U.S. citizens, has
According to the White House, there are about 550,000 illegal immigrants in the United States who qualify for the program and are eligible for “parole” while they wait for their immigration status to be adjusted, but states have filed suit, suggesting that the mass amnesty could extend to about 1.3 million illegal immigrants, many of whom have been in the U.S. illegally for decades.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said, “Biden's new parole avoidance measure unilaterally gives unvetted aliens who break our laws a chance at citizenship for the first time in our country. It violates the Constitution and exacerbates the illegal immigration problem plaguing Texas and the United States.”
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