AUSTIN — When Julieta Garibay first heard local voter officials had been instructed to contact suspected non-citizens who had improperly registered to vote in Texas, she did not wait to be called.

She got on the phone with the Travis County elections office herself to find if her name was among the estimated 95,000 the Texas Secretary of State's Office said might not belong on the state's voter rolls.

It was, and Garibay was angry.

"I took my oath of citizenship on April 6 and registered to vote on April 8," Garibay said in an interview with THE USA TODAY NETWORK. "I worked hard to become a citizen and it is my right to vote. And now I'm being accused of voter fraud?"

Garibay says in the Sept. 25 tweet that's pinned to the top of her Twitter feed she had been an undocumented immigrant for 26 years before attaining legal status in 2012. Since then, she followed the rules for becoming a naturalized citizen, including learning the answers to 100 potential test questions she'd be asked.

And she's among countless people whose names were erroneously flagged when the Texas Department of Public Safety cross-matched drivers' license data with the state's voter rolls. Since the list was sent out by Texas Secretary of State David Whitley one week ago, his offices have contacted several county elections office to warn them of potential problems. Whitley is the chief elections officer in Texas.

The Waco Tribune-Herald this week reported that the Secretary of State's office said that all 366 names of suspected non-citizens on the McLennan County rolls were in fact citizens of the United States.

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Civil rights groups have called the effort by Texas Republican leaders a blatant attempt to either improperly purge the rolls or to two intimate Hispanic voters, a reliably voting bloc for Democrats, into staying home on election day. The League of United Latin American Citizens is pursuing court action to stop any culling of the rolls.

Whitley's office has been low key on the topic, saying earlier this week it would not comment on pending litigation.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday, in response to a reporter's question, said he does not want to prevent citizens from voting but he would not call a halt to process of reviewing the registration data.

“This is what we would categorize as a process, a work in process,” Abbott said at a news conference. “They will get it right.

"We, in the state of Texas, don’t want anybody who is not legally authorized to be able to vote to have the ability to cast a vote."

That's not good enough for Garibay, who has been active in the campaign for immigrant rights long before become a citizen.

"I take my right to vote very seriously," said Garibay, who participated in local election one month after registering and again in the November general election. "I have a right and a responsibility to vote."

John C. Moritz covers Texas government and politics for the USA Today Network in Austin. Contact him at John.Moritz@caller.com and follow him on Twitter @JohnnieMo.

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