Abbott said "thousands" of noncitizens had been stripped from the rolls. His office then edited the press release after publication, softening it by adding the word “potential” before noncitizens. www.texastribune.org/2024/10/15/t...

Gov. Greg Abbott boasted that Texas removed 6,500 noncitizens from its voter rolls. That number was likely inflated.

An investigation by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat found that U.S. citizens were incorrectly labeled as noncitizens or removed from the rolls because they did not respond to letters about ...

Not sure that makes it any better. Striking people off the rolls *before* you've established they aren't citizens might not be the "softening" he thinks it is.