A Harris County Elections staff member at the Elections Technology Center warehouse in Houston on Tuesday., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
The scale of disenfranchisement will not be known for at least another week, as voters still have time to cure ballots that were found defective because they did not include newly required ID numbers. But in various counties, the percentage of ballots being rejected has ballooned well beyond previous rejection rates. Because of Texas’ strict eligibility criteria for voting by mail, older voters and voters with disabilities will be the most affected.
By contrast, less than 2% of mail-in ballots were rejected in the 2018 primary election, according to data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The count of ballots marked for rejection because of the ID rules in Harris County alone — 11,135 as of Feb. 28 — easily surpassed the total number of ballots rejected statewide — roughly 9,400 — in 2018. The number of faulty ballots in Harris may still grow as late-arriving mail-in ballots are processed this week.
Her second application was rejected even though she included her driver’s license number — the first ID number voters are instructed to provide — because the county only had her Social Security number on file. That’s the ID she used when she first registered to vote 46 years ago. Gaskin told the county worker who informed her of her rejection that she couldn’t recall what she had for dinner the night before, much less what number she had put down on her original voter registration.
An early wave of rejected requests sent voting advocates and county election officials into a scramble, trying to get out word of the new requirements even as faulty applications were already on their way to county offices. Concerns the requirements would lead to a spike in rejected ballots, on which voters also had to provide the ID numbers, reached top state officials. That included Texas Secretary of State John Scott, the state’s chief elections officer, who on a Feb.
As in-person early voting began, county election officials said some voters started surrendering their mail-in ballots, opting to vote in person instead for fear of being disenfranchised. In Bexar County, officials said they saw an increase in curbside voting among voters who had been unable to get through the new ID requirements.
Texas is a third world state. They're too ignorant to know what they are doing.
This was always the plan. And GQP will take every step to ensure it happens again in the general elections
Why only until Monday? Voters should be able to fix ballots until fall, before election day!
They were probably democrats trying to see how many illegal ballots they could get through the system
It’s a wonderfully self fulfilling prophecy. Every rejected ballot will be proof in the minds of right wingers that we need even more restrictions on voting.
There are too many ways to vote to accept that your ballot didn't count. It isn't a kindergarten game.
Wake up guypbenson
What happened to the mail-in ballots mailed to the Lt Governor?
But radical guypbenson doesn’t think it was a problem
If only we had a TheJusticeDept to do something.
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