Overview

• Texas signed memorandums of understanding with Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia to compare voter registration records.
• The agreements set confidentiality and cybersecurity protocols and call for referring suspected duplicate registrations or multi-jurisdiction voting to authorities.
• Secretary of State Jane Nelson said Texas plans to use the nine MOUs as a model and seek similar agreements with additional states.
• Texas exited ERIC last year, and an election policy expert warned these bilateral deals are likely to catch fewer ineligible records and could misidentify eligible voters.
• The initiative follows a statewide election-security grant program and a referral of 33 potential noncitizen registrants to the attorney general for investigation.