Hundreds of Texas mail-in ballot applications are being rejected under Texas' new voting rules

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The state Democratic party is warning voters to put their drivers license number and the last four digits of their social security number on their vote by mail application

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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 state’s largest counties are rejecting an alarming number of mail-in applications because they don’t meet the state’s 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 driver’s license number or state ID number or, if they don’t have one, the last four digits of their Social Security number on their applications. If they don’t have those IDs, voters can indicate they have not been issued that identification. Counties must match those numbers against the information in an individual’s voter file to approve them for a mail-in ballot.

In the old days, voter by mail was mainly used by old GOP voters. I hope that a good number of the GOP base screw this up

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. That's a guarantee of identity theft.

[Demovictory9]

13. yes

[PortTack]

2. Well..it's bound to catch a good number of gqp...not just dems

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. This is from the State Democratic Party

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[Hoyt]

4. +1. This is an example of how we beat these laws-- Voter education.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. This is from the Harris County party

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[Jim__]

5. When the state rejects a mail-in ballot does it notify the voter?

And if it notifies the voter, does it tell them why it was rejected?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I know that my county did notified rejected vote by mail ballots in 2020

This was for ballots. I do know if this was done for applications

[Jim__]

8. At least that part is good.

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. I think it's still mostly older people that use it

And they vote for the GOP more than any age group.

[FoxNewsSucks]

9. Manchinema don't care

[Igel]

11. Look at the requirements.

"Here's my DL or state-ID number."

Unless you don't have one. "Here are the last 4 digits of my SSN."

Nearly all citizens have one. But if you don't,

"Sorry, I don't have one." And the BOE folk say, "Okay."

Now, saying you don't have one when you do opens you up to perjury charges. But if you don't have one, then there's no ID requirement under TX law. You just affirm that you don't have ID. Done.

Makes me wonder about the actual grounds for disqualification for "100s" of rejected ballots 3 months pre-election in a state of 29 million people. Is it ID requirements, or something else?

[Tickle]

10. CT is like that

and yes, if you don’t provide the information your ballet doesn’t count. With that said you can find out if your ballet counted or not, I don’t know how you would fix but I think you can

[pecosbob]

12. Let's set up blue states as federal voting sanctuaries...

If your state has disenfranchised you and you qualify to vote under our laws, you may vote for all your state's federal elected offices in our state.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Texas Democrats raised this issue

Ben is one of the persons who worked on drive through voting in Harris County

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