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Gov. Gregg Abbott speaks at a podium in a photo collage that also includes a sign for a polling location.
Investigations

Gov. Greg Abbott boasted that Texas removed 6,500 noncitizens from its voter rolls. That number was likely inflated.

An investigation by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat found that U.S. citizens were incorrectly labeled as noncitizens or removed from the rolls because they did not respond to letters about their citizenship.

By Lexi Churchill and Vianna Davila, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica, James Barragán, The Texas Tribune, and Natalia Contreras, Votebeat

Screenshot of Gov. Abbott press release reads: “Of the over 6,500 potential noncitizens removed from the voter rolls, approximately 1,930 have a voter history.”
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