Report: Audit Finds Over 10,000 Potential Non-Citizens Registered to Vote in Texas

A new report says that an audit of the Texas voter rolls has found that there could be almost 10,000 non-citizens registered to vote.

The report in the Epoch Times said that the number was gleaned from a release of an audit of the 2020 election performed by the office of the Texas Secretary of State.

The office investigated four counties – Dallas and Harris, which have a history of voting Democratic, and Collin and Tarrant, which have a history of voting Republican, though Tarrant County flipped to blue in the 2020 election.

The four counties represent about a third of the state’s population.

The Epoch Times report stressed that the audit showed nothing that would have altered the results in elections in any of the four counties audited.

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Sam Taylor, assistant secretary of state for communications, told the publication the bottom line was that no major problems were found with the 2020 election.

“Generally speaking, nothing was found on such a large scale that could have altered any election,” he said.

However, the audit did find that statewide 11,737 potential non-citizens were on the rolls at the time it was conducted, the Epoch Times reported. That does not mean those individuals had actually voted — only that they were registered.

The audit stated:

“Beginning in September of 2021, the SOS implemented a comparative process utilizing DPS citizenship data pursuant to a 2019 settlement agreement. Since that time, 11,737 possible non-U.S. citizen voter records have been sent to county registrars for review statewide. Of the 11,737 records, 278 voting records have been cancelled due to confirmation of non-U.S. citizenship by the county. Additionally, 2,049 voter records have been cancelled for failure to respond to...

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