How to Make Sure You Are Registered to Vote in Texas

In late August, Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas election officials had removed more than 1.1 million names from the voter rolls. Many of these removals were consistent with routine election maintenance; more than 457,000 of the removed names belonged to deceased Texans, and another 134,000 belonged to Texans who had confirmed to officials that they had moved. The governor’s press release claimed that officials had also found the names of more than 6,500 possible noncitizens on the voting rolls, as well as more than 6,000 Texans legally barred from exercising the franchise because of felony convictions.Still, the single largest group among the removed names belonged to voters on the state’s “suspense list,” many of whom could remain eligible voters. Here, we’ll explain how to…

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This article was originally published by Dan Solomon at Texas Monthly (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/how-to-make-sure-you-are-registered-to-vote-in-texas/).

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