Close to 100 Grayson County voters flagged for citizenship check

Of the 95,000 names of flagged voters handed down from the Texas Secretary of State's office, a hundred of them live in Grayson County. A representative from the Grayson County election administration says they plan on speaking with each of the flagged voters before they make any changes to their voting registration process.

"Even though the state issued the list that it was 'potential' non US citizens, we feel like on the list we received for the most part that those individuals on the list are going to be citizens and eligible to vote," said Patterson.

Elections administrator Deana Patterson says they may have registered to vote when they got their driver's licenses, but weren't citizens yet.

They will check the list to find out if that's the case, if those people have since become citizens and she'll also be checking newly registered voters to confirm their citizenship.

"It will just be an ongoing process to the verifications for the voter rolls that typically happen when someone registers to vote. The information should be much more timely in the future," said Patterson.

The list has not been publicly released but Grayson County Democratic Party Chair Glenn Melancon believes certain groups are being targeted.

"Not for sure, but once again anyone that's an immigrant, we have a large number of Hispanics, predominently in Texas. So the Hispanic population will definitely be a target," said Melancon.

Patterson says even if changes are made to the way Grayson County does voter registration, they won't be drastic.

"We're not going to just start taking people off the voter registration roles, we'll definitely do our due diligence to research the information we have been provided and go from there," said Patterson.

Patterson says they will review voter records prior to sending any letters and will make personal contact prior to making any changes to any voters status on the voter registration rolls.