"removed from Texas voter rolls because they did not respond to letters about their citizenship."
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If you don't reply to a random spam-y letter you get in the mail, you must be hiding something!!!1
...which they probably made the least amount of effort to send
This is just the 6,500 removed for that specific reason. Many more citizens have been removed from the rolls:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Monday that the state has removed roughly a million people from its voter rolls since he signed a legislative overhaul of election laws in 2021.
Source: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/27/greg-abbott-voter-rolls-texas/
according to the texas secretary of state, texas has about 18 million registered voters. so 1 million people is about 5-6% of all registered voters in the state, which is insane.
That's more than Hillary and Biden needed to win the state in their respective elections.
likely? it feels as if conservatives didnt lie they wouldnt have anything to say
Interesting that, in nearly 40 years, I've never seen an article about any Democrats purging voter rolls. It is the GOP literally 100% of the time.
Reminds me of the ruzzian referendums before invading other countries such as Ukraine.
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