A local story about those voter roll purges for noncitizens.
TX Governor Abbott boasted of removing 6,500 noncitizens from voter rolls in 2024.
Then he had to backtrack as it turns out those were 6,50 POTENTIAL noncitizens.
Then the secretary of state’s office identified 581 people, not 6,500, as noncitizens, according to a report it gave Abbott in late August.
Then, further confusion over the actual numbers as the secretary of state’s office told the news organizations that it had “verbally” provided the governor’s office with a separate number of people removed from the rolls who failed to respond to letters alerting them that there were questions about their citizenship.
That means U.S. citizens who simply never received or responded to such letters are almost certainly included in Abbott’s 6,500 number. Abbott did not respond to requests for comment, and Secretary of State Jane Nelson declined to be interviewed.
After attempting to contact more than 70 people across both categories, the news organizations have so far found at least nine U.S. citizens in three Texas counties who were incorrectly labeled as noncitizens or removed from the rolls because they did not respond to the letters about their citizenship. In each case, they showed reporters copies of their birth certificates to confirm their citizenship, or reporters verified their citizenship using state records.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10...ded-americans/