Hundreds of 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

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1. This is from the Texas Democratic Party

I know Rose from the Texas Democratic Lawyers Association

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2. Texas Democrats warned the Texas legis of this issue

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3. Kick! Important message!

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4. Really!

I think voters over 65 should bombard the SOS office, Abbott's office, Patrick's office etc to check if they qualify to vote by mail.

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5. This is a great set of instructions from the Harris County party

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