The Texas Secretary of State’s Office has flagged more than 2,700 registered voters as potential noncitizens after comparing the state’s voter registration list with federal immigration data, officials announced Monday.

Secretary of State Jane Nelson said her office recently completed a full review of the state’s more than 18 million registered voters using information from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database — a resource newly made available to states at no cost.

The analysis identified 2,724 Texas voters who may not be U.S. citizens. The Secretary of State’s Office has turned those names over to county election officials, who are now responsible for verifying each person’s eligibility to vote under state law.

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