On Monday, Texas Republican Governor Abbott announced the removal of more than one million voters from voter rolls in the state of Texas as part of a purge to protect the integrity of the election and crackdown on illegal voting. The list included people who moved out-of-state, are deceased or are noncitizens.

In 2017, Abbott signed SB 5 into law which increased the penalty for election workers who allow non-citizens and ineligible people to vote.

He then followed that up by signing SB 1 into law in 2021 to create statewide voting hours, maintain and expand voting access for registered voters needing assistance, prohibit drive-through voting, authorize poll watchers to observe more parts of the election process, ban distribution of unsolicited mail-in ballot applications and ballots, and require IDs for mail-in ballots.

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