Chip Roy: Nearly 3 million non-citizens have Texas driver's licenses that SOS allows as voter ID

Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy and state Rep. Brian Harrison, R, said that the Texas Department of Public Safety has confirmed there are nearly 3 million non-citizens with driver's licenses in the state that secretary of state has allowed for use as voter ID.

The announcement on Thursday came after an Tuesday advisory by the Texas secretary of state's elections director, Christina Worrell Adkins, which states that while non-citizen driver's licenses are not acceptable as voter ID, they can be used if the person is already a registered voter.

"BREAKING: according to [Texas Department of Public Safety] - 2,824,613 non-citizens have DL’s, CDL’s, or ID - after working with my friend [Brian Harrison] to run this to ground. That’s why this matters - a lot," Roy posted on X on Thursday as he shared his earlier post with a Texas Scorecard article about non-citizens using driver's licenses as voter ID.

"Almost 3 million non-citizens have been issued driver licenses, CDLs, or IDs in Texas," Harrison wrote Thursday as he shared Roy's post on X. "The Secretary of State's office is instructing poll workers to give ballots to people with non-citizen driver licenses. [Chip Roy] is right: 'this matters a lot.' Developing.."

The secretary of state's advisory explains that only U.S. citizens are permitted to register to vote and cast ballots in Texas. However, the guidance also states that a person with a non-citizen driver’s license or identification card can vote if they are listed on the voter rolls. If the person is not on the voter rolls and has a non-citizen driver's license or ID, then they may still vote by provisional ballot.