Texas announces that over a million ineligible voters have been removed from the voter rolls since the last presidential election

Texas has removed 1.1 million names from voter rolls since the 2020 presidential election after the state deemed them ineligible, Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday.

Abbott signed the election integrity bill SB 1 in 2021, which requires the secretary of state to work with the Department of Public Safety to check citizenship status information in that agency's database against voter rolls. The checks must be done “monthly.”

“Election integrity is critical to our democracy,” Abbott said. “I signed the strongest election laws in the country to protect the right to vote and crack down on illegal voting.”

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“These reforms have resulted in over a million ineligible people being removed from our voter rolls over the past three years, including noncitizens, deceased voters and people who have moved to another state.”

The Texas government has referred cases of ineligible voters who participated in an election to Attorney General Ken Praxton for criminal prosecution.

“The Secretary of State and county voter registrars are required by law to review voter rolls, remove ineligible voters, and refer any potentially illegal votes to the Attorney General's office and local authorities for investigation and prosecution,” Abbott said.

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He added: “Illegal voting will never be tolerated in Texas. We will continue to actively protect Texans' sacred right to vote while aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference at the State Capitol in Austin. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The governor's office provided a table with the reasons for removal from the voter rolls and categorized estimates for individuals in each category.

The largest group of Texas residents disqualified during the audit were “suspense list voters” – people who had not properly verified their residential address in the state. Over 463,000 people fell into this category.

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The second most common category was the “deceased” who were still on the electoral rolls, affecting more than 457,000 people.

The governor's office said that about 6,500 non-citizens had been removed from the voter rolls – nearly 2,000 of these non-citizens are said to have voted in previous elections.