Hundreds of mail-in ballot applications are being rejected under Texas' new voting rules [View all]
Hundreds of Texans seeking to vote by mail in the upcoming March primary elections are seeing their applications for ballots rejected by local election offices trying to comply with stricter voting rules enacted by Texas Republicans last year.
Election officials in some of the states largest counties are rejecting an alarming number of mail-in applications because they dont meet the states new identification requirements. Some applications are being rejected because of a mismatch between the new identification requirements and the data the state has on file to verify voters.
Under Texas new voting law, absentee voters must include their drivers license number or state ID number or, if they dont have one, the last four digits of their Social Security number on their applications. If they dont have those IDs, voters can indicate they have not been issued that identification. Counties must match those numbers against the information in an individuals voter file to approve them for a mail-in ballot.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/13/texas-voting-mail-rejections/