{"id":125353,"date":"2026-01-16T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/125353\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:55:09","slug":"texas-hands-over-voter-registration-data-to-u-s-justice-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/125353\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas hands over voter registration data to U.S. Justice Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; Officials in Texas have given the U.S. Justice Department the state\u2019s voter registration data. The move comes after the Trump administration started asking all 50 states for their voter rolls last fall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhat the Department of Justice has done here is largely unprecedented and outside of the federal government\u2019s usual involvement in elections,\u201d explained Ashley Harris, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, Texas. \u201cStates, 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Harris said that the risk of non-citizens being on voter rolls is very low. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe know that even when people are flagged in Texas, they\u2019re often eligible voters and often naturalized citizens. [They\u2019re] people who properly became citizens and then registered to vote by exercising their right as a United States citizen,\u201d she noted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Despite the possibility of citizens being flagged incorrectly, there are ways to continue to exercise your right to vote. This includes going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Secretary of State\u2019s website<\/a> to check your status. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cRemember 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; Officials in Texas have given the U.S. Justice Department the state\u2019s voter registration data.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54184,27,29,28,54187,54183,54185,54186],"class_list":["post-125353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-justice-department-voter-rolls","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-secretary-of-state-voter-status","tag-texas-voter-registration-data","tag-trump-administration-voter-verification","tag-voter-registration-citizenship-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}