Texas rejects 2,400 online voter registrations as Oct. 9 deadline looms

[Gothmog]

If you used vote.org to register to vote with an electronic signature, then your registration may have been bounced by the state of Texas https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Texas-rejects-2-400-online-voter-registrations-as-13279521.php#photo-16273597

More than 2,000 potential voters in Texas had their voters’ registration applications unfairly rejected by the Texas Secretary of State, a national advocacy group said Wednesday.

Those voters will be barred from voting on Nov. 6 unless they re-submit updated applications with new signatures on them, according to the Secretary of State’s office, which will send affected voters the paperwork by mail. It must be resubmitted to the state within 10 days.

Vote.org, a nonpartisan group, said it helped 2,400 Texans from Dallas, Bexar, Cameron and Travis counties submit voter registration applications that use digital photographs of their signatures.

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1. Please check your voting status

We know how Republicans love to exclude people like us...

https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do

[Paladin]

2. All four counties are urban and blue. This stinks. (nt)

[LeftInTX]

3. This option was probably spread via social media.

It isn't whether Texas voter registration laws are fair, they aren't, but they are what they are.

Secretary of State is advising county registrars to send a notice to those potential voters that their registrations are incomplete and they must submit an application with an original signature within 10 days of getting the notice.

Taylor says that even if the 10th day is after the Oct. 9 voter registration deadline, those applications will still be considered valid.

Hopefully those involved will get their notices and resubmit. I also hope the registrars will include a mail-in registration application with instructions. It isn't fair to those who registered online, but Vote.org should have been more careful.