Texas dropped 1.1 million names from voter rolls in the past three years, governor says

More than a million names have been dropped from Texas voter rolls in the past three years, including nearly half a million people who have died, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday in an announcement crediting anti-fraud legislation with the purge. The dropped names also include half a million whose eligibility status is unclear, mainly because they didn’t respond to notices about address updates or other questions from the state. Texas also purged the names of some 6,500 people who are considered “potential noncitizens,” Abbott’s office said, referring to those...