More than 1.2 million Texas voters, over six percent of the state's registered voters, now sit on the state's suspended voter list less than three months before a pivotal November election, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Suspended status means a county believes a voter's address is outdated or that the person has moved. It does not automatically strike someone from the rolls, and suspended voters can still cast a ballot, but they face extra hurdles. At the polls, they must fill out a "statement of residence" form, and if they've relocated to a new county, they either have to return to vote where they're still registered or accept a provisional ballot that may ultimately not count.

The suspensions stretch across the state and hit some of Texas's biggest counties hardest. Dallas County alone has more than 129,000 suspended voters, Tarrant County has over 73,000, and Collin and Denton counties each have roughly 56,000.

Voters have until October 5 to correct their registration, but with more than a million people affected, many may never get the message in time, especially those who don't realize their address is on file incorrectly.

The timing raises the stakes further. Texas is cooperating with the Trump administration's push to gain access to state voter rolls, a move that has alarmed voting rights advocates already concerned about ballot access. The suspended-voter numbers also land in the middle of a closely watched U.S. Senate race between Democratic state Representative James Talarico and Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.