Texas Refutes Claims That Millions of Illegal Immigrants Are Registering to Vote

‘We are working now to determine why there is such a large discrepancy,’ the secretary of state’s office said.

Empty envelopes of opened vote-by-mail ballots for the presidential primary are stacked on a table at the King County Elections office in Renton, Wash., on March 10, 2020. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images

Texas’s secretary of state has countered online claims that Social Security Administration data show that the number of voters registering without photographic identification is skyrocketing in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Arizona because of illegal immigration.

“The number of voters registering without a photo ID is SKYROCKETING IN 3 key swing states: Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania,” an X user posted on the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, referring to Social Security data to claim that there were 220,731 such registrations in Arizona, 1,250,710 in Texas, and 580,513 in Pennsylvania.