Being born abroad to American parents does not make you any less of an American. Becoming a naturalized citizen after years of legal process does not make your vote any less valid. And yet in Texas, thousands of eligible voters have been flagged for potential removal from the rolls based on a federal database that was never designed to determine who is and is not a citizen.

In October 2025, the Texas Secretary of State's Office compared the state's voter registration list against the SAVE database, a federal system originally created in 1986 to verify immigration status for benefits applications, and identified 2,724 registered voters as potential noncitizens. Counties were then directed to investigate those voters' eligibility. According to a lawsuit filed by the League of United Latin American Citizens and other organizations, counties were given little guidance on how to conduct those checks, leading to reviews that were inconsistent across the state. Some voters were asked to prove their citizenship within a short timeframe or risk being removed from the rolls entirely.

This is not how a fair election system works. The law requires that voter roll maintenance be conducted in a uniform, nondiscriminatory, and accurate way. It does not allow states to rush eligible voters out of the system using unreliable data and inconsistent processes. A 2025 report from the Brennan Center for Justice found the SAVE database can contain incomplete information, raising serious concerns about the accuracy of any purge that relies on it.

Americans born abroad, whether to U.S. citizen parents or through the naturalization process, should never be reduced to second-class status when it comes to their right to vote. The right to vote is not conditional on where you were born. It is not something a state can take away because a database returned an incomplete record. And it is not something any eligible citizen should have to fight to reclaim after being wrongly removed.

Every American who is eligible to vote deserves a system that gets it right before acting, not after.

Sign this petition to call on Texas officials and federal lawmakers to halt the use of the SAVE database for voter roll maintenance, establish uniform standards for eligibility checks, and restore the voting rights of any eligible citizen who was improperly removed.