State has added 1.9 million voters since 2018 midterm elections, outpacing population...
Harris County Elections Office set up the new voting machines for demonstration during the League of Women Voters Houston rally at Emancipation Park on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022 in Houston. The new machines require the voter to vote on one machine and then cast their ballot in another. Early voting in Texas starts Monday, Oct. 24, 2022.Texas now has almost 17.7 million voters — 1.9 million more than four years ago when Gov. Abbott won re-election.
New voter registration totals from the Texas Division of Elections show the state’s voter rolls are continuing to grow . While the state’s population has grown about 7 percent since 2018, the state’s voter registrations have grown by about 12 percent.Nowhere has the surge been bigger than in Harris County, where 230,000 people have been added to the voter rolls since 2018. Tarrant and Bexar counties are next, with more than 130,000 more voters than four years ago. All three counties voted Democratic in the 2020 presidential election.
But some of the biggest percentage increases in voter registrations are coming from booming counties that voted Republican in 2020. Comal County, just north of San Antonio, saw a 29-percent increase in voter registrations from 4 years ago — the highest growth percentage of any county in the state. Not far behind was Kaufman County, east of Dallas, which also grew by about 29 percent.
The surge in voter registration in Texas is partly due to how aggressive candidates and political parties have become in navigating the state’s voter registration system to sign up voters.
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