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This week, the Greg Abbott administration of Texas announced that they were removing north of one million records from the Texas voter rolls due to their ineligibility to legally vote and participate in the upcoming November elections. This reportedly included several thosuands of non-American citizens.

Back in September of 2021, Greg Abbott signed the Texas Senate Bill 1 law, which was designed to make the elections held in Texas safer and more secure. The bill established clear statewide voting hours, actually made it easier for eligible voters to register with assistance from the state if they needed assistance, but made “drive-through” voting illegal. The bill also made any soliciting of mail-in ballots illegal.

The Greg Abbott administration made this announcement in a press release, saying that these efforts were made possible by the “strongest election laws” in the entire country. “Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” Mr. Abbott shared for the press release.

“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. The Secretary of State and county voter registrars have an ongoing legal requirement to review the voter rolls, remove ineligible voters, and refer any potential illegal voting to the Attorney General’s Office and local authorities for investigation and prosecution. Illegal voting in Texas will never be tolerated. We will continue to actively safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote while also aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting,” the statement went on to read.

His office also shared a breakdown of the reasons why the ineligible voters were removed from the rolls. These include non-citizens, felonious citizens, people who have deceased, and more. The two largest reasons for removal were a failure to confirm a legal address in Texas as well as the removal of deceased citizens.

Over 463,000 were removed from the “suspense list” (those who hadn’t confirmed an address). More than 457,000 were removed because they had deceased. More than 65,000 were removed due to failure to respond to registration examination. 134,000 were removed because they did confirm an out-of-state address change. There were several other reasons thousands of others were removed, like from requests to cancel registration. In total, the Abbott office said they have cleaned the rolls in Texas of 1.1 million ineligible voters.

Massive amounts of ineligible people have been removed from Texas' voter rolls since election integrity legislation was signed into law, Gov. Greg Abbott announced. pic.twitter.com/ljJCjAT4vs

— Lance (@LanceMahan56338) August 27, 2024

What’s particularly shocking is that the Abbott office claims that about a third of the thousands of non-citizens who were removed in fact have a history of voting in the state of Texas.

The Texas State legislature has responded to these concerns with a new bill that Abbott signed in 2023 that made it illegal in the state for non-citizens to vote. It’s now a second-degree felony in the Lone Star State. This is just the latest of a whole host of bills Abbott has signed that are designed to tighten up the validity of elections held in Texas.

Just since 2021, Texas has elevated the criminality of lying to state officials when registering to vote, banned ballot harvesting, banned the solicitation of mail-in ballots, and has created requirements for the Texas Secretary of State to fulfill randomized audits of their election systems and voter rolls.

Election integrity is now LAW in Texas.

This law:
▪️ Ensures every eligible voter gets to vote
▪️ Adds more hours to vote
▪️ Makes it harder for fraudulent votes to be cast
▪️ Makes ballot harvesting a 3rd degree felony

Bottom line: it's easier to vote & harder to cheat. pic.twitter.com/p9IDQg95IK

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 7, 2021

The Desire For Clear And Scientific Elections

Many Americans are calling for the election process to be much more transparent and scientific than it has been in recent years. There are valid concerns that recounts are producing wildly different results. A truly bullet-proof system would be able to produce the same result no matter how many times a recount is run.

That’s how the scientific method works. To verify an experiment or an analysis, you have to run that experiment over and over again until you can produce the same result without fail.

Some states in the United States do not even have a recount process, with the only way for a candidate who has lost to contest the result being to take it to the court system in an expensive litigation. In other states, the recounts can be requested by voters themselves, while in most, voters do not have that right.

The corporate media machine’s talking heads will paint anyone questioning the election process as a wild conspiracy theorist who can’t be trusted, but these are basic questions that millions of Americans have about America’s election integrity. As usual, there’s wisdom with the crowds voicing concerns about inconsistencies with election laws.

What do you think? Do you think producing different recount results is a non-issue? Let us know what you think in the comments below.