Election headaches continue as issues with Texas mail-in ballot request rejections continue to arise as early voting is set to open statewide Monday.
As of Thursday, Dallas County has received 583 ballots, of which 166 have been returned to voters. Corrected ballots postmarked by 7 p.m. March 1 will be counted.
The office has received 13,572 applications for an absentee ballot, of which 1,445 — 10.6% — have been rejected. A little more than half of the rejected applications were refused because the voter did not provide an ID number and about 11% were rejected because the voter did not provide the ID number used when they registered to vote.
In Collin County, Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet reported that about 200 of 5,000 mail-in ballots applications — 5% — have been rejected. Sherbet said numbers regarding returned mail-in ballots were not available. The county’s ballot board will begin processing those ballots on Monday, he said.that the new law has contributed to her office returning 40% of ballots.
That suit, brought by Longoria and volunteer deputy registrar Cathy Morgan, is challenging a portion of SB 1 that makes it a felony for election officials to solicit absentee ballots from voters.. Philip Jankowski has covered government, politics and criminal justice in Texas for 13 years. He previously worked for the Austin American-Statesman, the Killeen Daily Herald and the Taylor Press. Philip is a graduate of the University of Texas-Austin.
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