Governor Abbot of Texas is doing his part in fighting Election Fraud in Texas.
“Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” Abbott said. “I have signed the strongest election laws in the nation to protect the right to vote and to crackdown on illegal voting. These reforms have led to the removal of over one million ineligible people from our voter rolls in the last three years, including noncitizens, deceased voters, and people who moved to another state.
Senate Bill 1113 directed the Secretary of State to withhold funds from counties whose administrators fail to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. House Bill 574 increased the penalty for those who knowingly count invalid votes or refuse to count valid votes to a second-degree felony.
In 2017, Abbott signed Senate Bill 5 into law to increase the penalty for election workers who knowingly permit noncitizens and other ineligible persons to vote.