In a letter, they raised concerns that eligible voters could be getting wrongly identified as noncitizens or removed to close to Election Day.
Charlotte Christman returned to her Houston home last month to a curious letter. Her voter registration, it said, was under suspense, and the 68-year-old would need to confirm that she still lived at her address. Christman mailed the card back and, for now, appears registered to vote this November. But after hearing Gov. Greg Abbott ’s announcement on Monday that state officials had removed over one million Texans from their voter rolls, she is rethinking her story.
Greg Abbott says Texas purged 1 million registered voters to fight fraud. The ACLU has questions Abbott’s announcement, coming just weeks before the deadline for registering to vote in the November election, has prompted confusion by voting rights groups and some Texans who say they were surprised to learn recently that they had been flagged for potential removal by their local elections offices.
Here's how to check that your Texas voter registration is still active 'We've asked to see the list of the people who have been kicked off the rolls, people who have been suspended, why they were suspended,' Wu said at a news conference in Houston. 'They have so far completely ignored those requests.
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