Texas announces over 1M ineligible voters removed from voting rolls since last presidential election

Texas has purged 1.1 million names from voting rolls since the 2020 presidential election after the state found them to be ineligible, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday.

Abbott signed election integrity bill SB 1 into law in 2021 requiring the secretary of state to work with the Department of Public Safety to compare information on citizenship status in that agency's database to the voter rolls. The checks are required to be "monthly."

"Election integrity is essential to our democracy," said Abbott.