Governor Greg Abbott said today that since Senate Bill 1 was signed into law in 2021, the state has been able to get rid of over a million invalid votes from its voter rolls.

This important decision removes almost 500,000 dead people and thousands of people who are not citizens.

Governor Abbott said, “Elections must be fair for our system to work.”

“To protect the right to vote and stop people from voting illegally, I have signed the strictest election rules in the country. Along with noncitizens, dead voters, and people who moved to another state, these changes have taken off of our voter rolls more than a million people who are not qualified to vote.”

“The Secretary of State and county voter registrars are required by law to regularly check the voter rolls, remove anyone who isn’t qualified to vote, and report any possible illegal voting to the Attorney General’s Office and local officials so that they can investigate and bring charges. In Texas, voting without a license will never be okay. Texans have a sacred right to vote, and we will continue to fight hard to protect our elections from people who vote illegally.”

The Secretary of State’s office and county voter registrars’ thorough review process has led to important results. These acts have taken away the names of over 1.1 million voters who are not qualified to vote in Texas.

From what the news release says:

“Over 6,500 noncitizens were taken off the voter rolls: about 1,930 have a voting history. The Attorney General’s Office will look into all 1,930 records sent by the Secretary of State’s office and may take formal action if necessary. The governor signed House Bill 1243 into law last year to make it easier to catch people voting illegally. This made it a second-degree crime to vote illegally, which includes voting by someone who is not a citizen.”