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Texas voters stunned to learn they've been purged from electoral roll as part of Greg Abbott's crackdown
Texans expecting to vote in November have told of their shock after discovering they may have been included in the government's 'purge' of who's eligible to.
The Republican leader proudly announced that the 1.1 million names eliminated from the state's voter database included non-citizens, felons and dead people.
But now an Austin man with a government security clearance who votes in every presidential election believes he may have been caught up in the purge.
He asked to remain anonymous due to his job, but his wife, Ann told DailyMail.com they took their 18-year-old son to the Travis County building to get registered for his first election a few days ago.
While there, she and her husband checked their voter registration status and were shocked to learn her husband's registration had been canceled.
The governor's office reported that, since the signing of SB 1 three years ago, over 1 million names have been removed from the voter rolls
'(The county worker) said, "You're still on it but your husband isn't,"' Ann explained, adding that he last voted in 2021 in a local referendum that aimed to restrict the homeless population and where they would set up camps.
'She said, "If you haven't voted in a couple years, they're just taking people off,' Ann recalled.
'I was like, "Why would they do that?"
She said, "To make room for other voters."'
'My personal opinion is that shouldn't matter.
'Once you're registered to vote, you shouldn't just take people off because they're not voting enough for you. Some people only vote in presidential elections.'
Ann, an Austin, Texas resident, and her husband recently checked their voter registration status and discovered he had been kicked off the state voter roll
The governor's office said 1.1 million names had been purges from voting registration from 2021, and the effort was still happening
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has revealed that since the enactment of Senate Bill 1 in 2021, more than 1 million names of ineligible voters have been purged from the state's voter rolls
Her husband's voter status was re-instated that same day, but Ann worries her husband might not have been able to vote at all if they hadn't happen to check their registration.
She worried Abbott's promise to have the 'strongest election laws in the nation' is actually disenfranchising Texans.
'He's playing a political game,' Ann stated.
'He has ambitions to go further, and he's feeding into the populace of people that he feels he needs.'
Abbott's office did not respond to a request for comment.
'Illegal voting in Texas will never be tolerated,' his office said in a press release earlier this week.
Campaign Legal Center said it was demanding evidence from Texas about who was being purged from the voter roll
'We will continue to actively safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote while also aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting.'
The governor's office made clear the process, which started in 2021, is still ongoing.
'Federal law bars systematically purging voters from the rolls within 90 days of an election,' Kate Huddleston of Campaign Legal Center tweeted.
'Gov. Abbott said on Monday the purge process is “ongoing.” That’s unlawful, & our letter put Texas on notice that it must immediately cease systematic voter removals.'
The group says it put Abbott 'on notice' in a letter, demanding that the Lone Star State must immediately stop weeding out voters and records showing who was removed and why.
'We’re concerned that some eligible Texas voters are likely being wrongly identified for citizenship investigation & purged from the rolls. In the past, Texas has wrongly targeted naturalized citizens for removals,' Huddleston explained.
The Texas Secretary of State did not respond to concerns raised by the group.
However, the governor's office said earlier this week that of the 6,500 non-citizen removed, 1,930 has actually cast a ballot.
The Secretary of State’s Office is currently forwarding these records to the Attorney General’s Office for investigation and 'potential legal action.'
More than 457,000 were the names of deceased people, and more than 134,000 confirmed they no longer lived in Texas.
In addition, over 6,000 people who have a felony conviction were removed as well as 463,000 voters who were on the suspense list.
According to the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, a person is typically put on a situation list when counties are unsure of a resident's address or believe they have moved. This often happens when mail, such as a voter registration card or jury summons, is returned as undeliverable.
More than 65,000 voters who failed to respond to a notice of examination while another 19,000 people had requested to cancel their voter registration.
'Everyone should be checking their registration,' Ann urged all Texans.
The deadline to register to vote in Texas is Monday, October 7, and the registration must either be turned in person or mailed in, as online registration is not allowed.