AUSTIN, Texas — Across Texas, county elections officials are taking a second look at their voter rolls.

The Texas Secretary of State’s Office sent notices , saying out of the more than 18 million registered voters in Texas, 2,724 voters are possibly not U.S. citizens, making them ineligible to vote.

The state sent the notices on Tuesday, on the second day of early voting for the November election, two weeks out from Election Day.

Staff in the Secretary of State’s Office ran the names of registered Texas voters against citizenship data in a federal database, and that’s how they got this list .

Previously, counties would rely on the state for information, like DPS data and death records, in a more constant, gradual process of list maintenance.

Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson wr

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