Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Monday his state has removed more than a million people from its voter rolls since the 2020 election. About half of those are people who’ve died or moved out of Texas. The remainder include hundreds of thousands who failed to update voter registration information after changing addresses. About 6,000 were stripped of their right to vote due to a felony conviction; another 6,500 people were removed from the voter rolls after they were labeled as “noncitizens.”

A coalition of voting rights groups, including the Texas Civil Rights Project and the ACLU, warned in a letter to elections officials, “Texas may be engaging anew in unlawful purges under the guise of list maintenance.” The groups also say Republican elections officials purged voting rolls within 90 days of an election — a violation of federal law.