One of the most essential states for former President Donald Trump’s victory has purged thousands of non-citizens and felons ahead of the November election.
Since Senate Bill 1’s passage in 2021, more than one million ineligible voters — including non-citizens and felons — have been purged from Texas’ voter rolls, according to a Monday announcement from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R). The massive voter roll purge removed more than 6,500 non-citizens, including illegal aliens and other immigrants ineligible to vote, as well as more than 6,000 felons. More than 457,000 dead people were also purged from the voter rolls, along with more than 134,000 people who had moved out of Texas.
“Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” Abbott explained in a statement. “I have signed the strongest election laws in the nation to protect the right to vote and to crackdown on illegal voting. These reforms have led to the removal of over one million ineligible people from our voter rolls in the last three years, including noncitizens, deceased voters, and people who moved to another state.”
“We will continue to actively safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote while also aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting,” he continued, noting that the process of cleaning up the state’s voter rolls is ongoing.
Texas has removed over 1.1 million ineligible voters from our rolls.
This includes more than 6,500 noncitizens. Almost 2,000 have cast votes.
They’re being referred to Attorney General @KenPaxtonTX for prosecution.
Texas won't tolerate illegal voting. https://t.co/dJF6rnihui
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 26, 2024
This news comes as Democrats continue to insist that Texas is up for grabs in the November election, while many Republicans believe that the only way Texas could ever flip blue would be the result of some form of fraud. If Trump were to lose Texas in the November election, he would have to win every single swing state to make up for that loss.
Commentators like podcast host Tim Pool have argued that the Democrats’ insistence that Texas could flip is part of an effort to prepare voters for shenanigans in the November election, citing massive numbers of new attempted voter registrations without IDs and a recent probe launched by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) — who is investigating reports that organizations are setting up booths outside of DMVs in the state to register voters. As citizens are already offered the option to register to vote while conducting business inside the DMV, Paxton and others believe that the organizations are specifically trying to register ineligible voters such as illegal aliens.
In a recent podcast, Pool stated: “I called this a long time ago — that with the Help America Vote Verification System (HAVV) showing Texas getting hundreds of thousands of registrations with no IDs, something was wrong… The hypothetical was, they’ll start reporting that Texas is actually a purple State and it’s getting close and it could flip — that way, no matter what [states] Trump wins it’s over.”
