Opinion: It's past time for online voter registration in Texas

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Texas is restricting the number of voter registration forms to suppress the vote.

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The state’s chief election officer, the Texas secretary of state, recently announced that supply chain issues have forced the state to reduce the number of voter registration card applications available for the public.

Voter registration organizations that have requested applications are only receiving a fraction of the number they request.....

Online voter registration is safer, more secure and cheaper than its paper equivalent.

It was first implemented close to 20 years ago in Arizona. Now 42 states and the District of Columbia allow online voter registration. This includes red, blue, purple, small and large states.

The Texas Civil Rights Project and some other groups sued and forced Texas to comply with federal law and electronically register votes when they renew driver's license. This lawsuit took almost a decade but the TCRP and others finally won and now some Texans can update their voter registration electronically

In August 2020, a federal court ruled that Texas was in violation of the National Voter Registration Act because the state was not giving residents the option to register to vote when they renewed their driver’s license.

Texas was forced to comply and since then, 1.5 million Texans have used the online system to register to vote or change their voter registration address. We have not heard any reports from the Texas secretary of state that this system is being abused with fraudulent registrants.

Texas is trying to suppress the vote to help Greg and others. We need to fight Texas voter suppression