Some 23,000 Texans who tried to vote in this month’s primaries had their mail ballots rejected, an apparent aftershock from new state laws. Texas VoterSuppression Voting VotingRights 2022Election TexasRepublicans GregAbbott
that included, among other things, bans on around-the-clock voting, drive-thru voting, public officials sending vote-by-mail applications to voters who didn’t request them and changes to mail voting — including new ID requirements — that complicated longstanding practices and evidently confused a lot of voters.
Every eighth person who voted by mail didn’t get their vote counted. Depending on where those voters live and how they voted, that’s a big enough number to change the results of some races. In Harris County, the AP reported, 19% of the mail ballots were tossed out, or nearly 7,000. By comparison, the state’s largest county rejected only 135 ballots in the last midterm election in 2018. in these primaries: 82.5% of the state’s registered voters were no-shows.
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