Bexar County rejected mail-in ballots at roughly ten times the rate in the March primary than it did before the state's new voting law took effect.
Bexar County elections officials rejected 22% of mail-in ballots — and counting — from the March primary election.Bexar County rejected mail-in ballots at roughly ten times the rate it did before the passage of the state’s new voting law last year.to voting in Texas, roughly 2% to 3% of mail-in ballots were rejected in local elections, Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacquelyn Callanen told the San Antonio Report.
One of the biggest issues was the new requirement that voters to provide, on both their vote-by-mail application and the ballot, their driver’s license number or Social Security number — critically, they must choose the same number for both. In order to fix, or “cure,” a ballot, the elections department sends it back through the post office to the voter to request changes. If there’s not enough time to mail it back and forth, the department tries to notify the voter by phone or email about the error, giving the voter a chance to come in person to the elections office to meet the curing deadline.
James Slattery, senior staff attorney on the Voting Rights Program at the Texas Civil Rights Project, said the new voting provisions were designed to suppress the vote. that explains the new processes, he said, as the state has done a poor job of voter outreach and education., expanded early voting hours in rural counties, but banned 24-hour voting. It’s also now illegal for public officials to promote voting by mail, though political parties are still allowed to send out applications. Election offices can send a mail-in ballot application to someone only if it is requested by that individual.
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