The number of rejected mail-in ballot applications is skyrocketing in Texas counties under new Republican-authored voting restrictions.
than previous cycles because of the new “voter suppression laws that create a maze of technicalities.” Harris County includes the city of Houston, and with 4.7 million residents has a higher population than 24 U.S. states.
Counties have struggled to match ID information because they lack certain data, particularly because voters are not required to provide both their state ID and Social Security numbers when they register to vote. The Texas secretary of state’s office last year said more than 2 million of the state’s 17 million registered voters did not have one of the two ID numbers on file and more than 250,000 did not have either number on file.
DeBeauvoir said some voters’ applications were rejected because they used an older form that did not include the new voter ID requirement. “So far, we have not received instructions from the secretary of state’s office to tell voters how to look up this information, and therein is the beginning of the problem for voters,” DeBeauvoir said.
Voting rights advocates say the new law was largely aimed at restricting voting expansions in areas like Harris County, which sent mail-In ballot applications to every voter in 2020. While county officials are banned from sending out unsolicited mail ballot applications, candidates and political parties are not. The Texas Democratic Party said Monday it will send out hundreds of thousands of mail ballot applications to voters 65 and older.
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