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Related: About this forumNew Texas voting rules causing high number of ballot rejections
SB1 was designed to suppress the vote and this law is working as designed
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Election supervisors in Texas have warned that new stricter voter ID requirements ahead of next months state governors primary have already resulted in an uncharacteristically high number of ballot rejections.
Voting rights activists have expressed fears that new laws making access to the vote more difficult that have been passed in many states across the US by Republicans will impact Democrat-leaning voters of color.
According to officials in media reports, as many as 40% of roughly 3,600 returned ballots in Harris county, Texas most populous county that incorporates Houston, have lacked the identification number required under Senate Bill 1, a Republican-sponsored bill designed to tie voters to valid IDs.
In Williamson county, a northern suburb of Austin with a fast-growing population of non-white residents, the rejection rate has been about 25% of early mail-in votes ahead of the 1 March primary which will determine which of the five Democratic challengers, including former US congressman Beto ORourke, will likely take on the Republican governor, Greg Abbott.
Voting rights activists have expressed fears that new laws making access to the vote more difficult that have been passed in many states across the US by Republicans will impact Democrat-leaning voters of color.
According to officials in media reports, as many as 40% of roughly 3,600 returned ballots in Harris county, Texas most populous county that incorporates Houston, have lacked the identification number required under Senate Bill 1, a Republican-sponsored bill designed to tie voters to valid IDs.
In Williamson county, a northern suburb of Austin with a fast-growing population of non-white residents, the rejection rate has been about 25% of early mail-in votes ahead of the 1 March primary which will determine which of the five Democratic challengers, including former US congressman Beto ORourke, will likely take on the Republican governor, Greg Abbott.
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New Texas voting rules causing high number of ballot rejections (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 2022
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)1. Sounds like local Democratic organizations need to get the word out.
LetMyPeopleVote
(151,829 posts)4. We are
I have received several emails and we are gearing up. I am volunteering to be in virtual war room for voter protection
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)5. Good deal. Thanks.
Beartracks
(13,196 posts)2. Republicans: "Americans being able to vote doesn't work for us."
gab13by13
(23,929 posts)3. Hey, we have the same thing In Pa.
When I applied for my mail in ballot I filled out both my driver's license number and the last 4 digits of my SS number. People are being rejected because their driver's license numbers don't always match.