Posted on 02/18/2022 5:59:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) - Thousands of Texas voters' mail-in ballots for midterm primary elections have been rejected for failing to comply with new Republican-backed identification requirements passed in the wake of former President Donald Trump's false claims of widespread fraud, county officials said.
Election officials in six of the state's largest counties, which are collectively home to about a third of Texas' population, are reporting unprecedented rates of invalid ballots, almost entirely because voters are neglecting to include an ID number on the envelope as the new law demands.
In Harris County, home to Houston and 4.7 million people, 3,475 ballots representing about 35% of those received by Tuesday could not be accepted because voters did not fill in the correct number. In past years, the overall rejection rate was between 5% and 10%.
The vast majority of ballots appeared to have been cast by registered voters who simply made an honest mistake, officials said.
"These layers don't provide more security, but they are providing more rejection," said Isabel Longoria, the top election official in Harris, the state's most populous county. "Election administrators are in this very bizarre situation where it's our job to help voters vote ... and we're having to reject ballots at a rate we've never seen before."
The number of rejected votes is certain to rise, given that the majority of mail-in ballots have not yet arrived at clerks' offices ahead of the March 1 primary.
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You are correct.... just another simple human error becoming a citizen...lol
Houston is a communist stronghold for illegal aliens. I think 35% rejected is way too low. Far left Austin is only an outpost for the more confused far left wingers.
Wow. If a voter can’t copy a number from the ballot to the envelope, how considerate can their vote be?
And don’t try the ploy that 1/3 of the electorate is too old and feeble to vote correctly.
It’s simple.
DONT CHEAT,
there’s plenty of time to fix your voting information.
Don’t listen to LEFT WING HACK WHO WANT THE DEMOCRAT CHEATING TO CONTINUE.
That was not a news article, that was an opinion piece.
Perhaps thousands of mail-in ballots were rejected, but how do we know they were actually from voters...did they have valid identification?
Yup.. That’s where I stopped reading too.
Democrats cry honest elections what next closed borders.
shush! ;-)
There is no confusion. The law is making it harder for the DemonRat communists to cheat, and they don’t like it.
If they are legitimate voters curing the ballots should be simple. If, on the other hand, these are harvested ballots from on of the many democrat fraud schemes they will be difficult to cure. Seems like the system is working.
“The vast majority of ballots appeared to have been cast by registered voters who simply made an honest mistake, officials said.”
Then they can try again, or show up in person.
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