SAN ANTONIO CURRENT: Texas' plan to seek voters' citizenship proof could drop eligible people from rolls, group warns

A recent study by the nonpartisan organization VoteRiders shows that 1.3 million Texans who are U.S. citizens of voting age — or about 7% — would have difficulty showing documentation that proves their U.S. citizenship.

“Requiring documentary proof of citizenship in Texas risks disenfranchising millions of voters,” said Selene Gomez, national outreach director for VoteRiders. “The proposed legislation would immediately block eligible voters from the ballot box and deny them their freedom to vote.”

VoteRiders’ research found that young voters were three times as likely to lack the required documentation as older voters and that Black and Hispanic voting aged citizens would have a harder time getting the documentation than whites.