New voting identification requirements in Texas are putting thousands of ballots at risk of being rejected if voters don't correct them soon, multiple county officials say.
Pam Gaskin holds her mail-in ballot.Harris County, home to the city of Houston and more than 4 million residents, was the first towas inundated with thousands of questions about mail voting in January and forced to quickly hire new staff to deal with the surge of work that voter confusion and rejected ballots have created, according to Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria.
Sometimes it's as simple as election officials not having a driver's license number on file for a voter yet. If voters don’t include the same numbers on the ballot that they used on their application, officials said their ballots will be rejected.“It’s important to remember that Texas has 254 counties, and each one faces its own unique challenges to implement these new changes,” he said. “The short turnaround time that the Legislature gave to implement it has created its own challenges.”
In El Paso County, home to more than 800,000 residents, approximately 49 percent of mail ballots are being flagged for rejection; election workers are mailing ballots back and calling voters to invite them to fix the error — a process known as curing — in person. But historically, the number of ballot errors that are fixed by voters before the primary tends to be low.
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