Vote-by-mail rejections test integrity of Texas Republicans' voting law
JAN. 24, 2022 / 8:16 AM
By Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune
Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Barely started down the path toward the first elections conducted under voting restrictions enacted last year by Republican lawmakers, Texas voters and local election officials have found themselves enveloped in a fog of errors, delays and miscommunications as they navigate new rules for casting votes by mail.
Only a small slice of the state's electorate is allowed to cast absentee ballots, and the trickle of requests for mail-in ballots that began in early January is swelling into the usual pre-election flood.
But hundreds of applications are being rejected -- in many cases because voters appear to not know the new rules. Local election workers are still deciphering the procedures, and say they've been hampered by a paucity of help and information from the Texas secretary of state's office. Meanwhile, the state is scrambling to provide training under the crush of advising counties on implementing a multitude of election changes.
"We are bombarded," said Yvonne Ramon, the Hidalgo County elections administrator. "To try to review Senate Bill 1 alone was a monster, and it wasn't just on us. It was on the state. It was on every [election official] at every level."
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