With the election 70 days away, Texas Governor Greg Abbott
announced that more than one million names were removed from
the state voter rolls.
This removal process started in 2021 as part of a
state law enacted to increase voter integrity.
KTSM 9 News reporter Diana Castillo joins us live from
our newsroom.
And Diana, how is this going to impact you and
me?
Estela?
Counties across our state, including El Paso, removed names of
non eligible voters on a daily basis.
Now this includes people who have died, moved out of
Texas, or who are not citizens.
It's a process that's been happening since 2021.
On Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that over 1,000,000
names have been removed from the state's voter rolls on
X Governor Abbott mentioned in part that among those 1,000,000
/ 6000 are non citizens, adding that nearly 2000 of
them have voter history.
Now, with the election being so close, it's always a
good idea to check on your registration status during big
elections.
You know, sometimes they show up to the polls and
then they find out in person that their voter registration
record was cancelled.
So it's always important to check your voter registration status,
especially when you move to a different address within the
county or even to a different county within the states.
And to check your registration status, you can visit the
El Paso County Elections Department website.
In a press release sent by the Governor's office and
mentions that the Secretary of State's office is in the
process of sending all of those voter records to the
Attorney General's office for investigation and potential legal action back
to you.