AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas has removed 1.1 million people from voter rolls since 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott’s office announced Monday, highlighting efforts to clean up election data and ensure legal registration.
That includes 6,500 potential noncitizens and more than 457,000 deceased people, according to data the governor’s office provided. But the largest number of canceled registrations, more than 463,000, came from people on the state’s voter suspense list.
When Nico Ramsey went to check his voter record last week, he said he surprisingly found himself among the 2.2 million Texans whose registration status is currently listed as “suspense.”
What this means, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s Office , is that their counties do not know their address or think they moved, which often happens because either a voter registration card or a jury summons sent in the mail is returned as undeliverable.
“I was confused when I saw ‘suspense’ on my status,” Ramsey said Tuesday. “One, it’s not that descriptive on what that means, and it’s kind of intimidating, in a way, to see. Will I still be able to vote? Did I miss out on something? And also knowing that any time I move, I’m always filling out that change of address, and that has always in the past sufficed for switching over my voter information.”