The Texas Secretary of State referred 117 cases to the Office of the Attorney General for investigation of potential noncitizen voting, the agency announced. The referrals are part of a broader voter citizenship review ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
The review began last fall when the Secretary of State's office cross-checked the names of the state's 18 million registered voters through the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. The initial check identified 2,724 potential noncitizens on the voter rolls, which were referred to county registrars for investigation.
In a follow-up, the Secretary of State's office partnered with the Department of Public Safety to conduct a manual review of the 2,724 cases and requested counties report their investigation results. The additional review significantly narrowed the number of potential noncitizens to 117.
The expanded review found that 578 voters demonstrated citizenship. Of those, 506 had citizenship proven after passport information was added to the SAVE database after the state's initial run. The Secretary of State advised counties to reinstate any registrations that had been removed for these voters.
Texas participated in a pilot program with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2025 to perform voter list maintenance using the SAVE database, described as the nation's primary source for citizenship data.