BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – Officials in Texas have given the U.S. Justice Department the state’s voter registration data. The move comes after the Trump administration started asking all 50 states for their voter rolls last fall.
“What the Department of Justice has done here is largely unprecedented and outside of the federal government’s usual involvement in elections,” explained Ashley Harris, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, Texas. “States, and in Texas, largely counties, manage state voter rolls, which has a lot of confidential information about individuals, including date of birth, social security number, et cetera, as well as their voting history.”
Harris said that the risk of non-citizens being on voter rolls is very low.
“We know that even when people are flagged in Texas, they’re often eligible voters and often naturalized citizens. [They’re] people who properly became citizens and then registered to vote by exercising their right as a United States citizen,” she noted.
Despite the possibility of citizens being flagged incorrectly, there are ways to continue to exercise your right to vote. This includes going to the Texas Secretary of State’s website to check your status.
“Remember that if someone is improperly removed from a voter roll because of citizenship, they can be reinstated at any time by providing proof of citizenship, even as late as election day.”
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