Willie Nelson and wife had ballot applications rejected under Texas' GOP-championed voting law

The music legend faced the same ID confusion that led Texas to reject 23,000 ballots under the new law. Texas WillieNelson VotingRights Elections2022 VoterSuppression TexasRepublicans GregAbbott BigLie

that the couple's initial applications were rejected over inconsistent identification information provided on the forms.

That mixup over ID requirements has been common under the state's Republican-backed voting law, which led to elections officials statewide rejecting 13% of mail ballots for the March 1 primary,Texas elections officials pitched out 23,000 ballots under the new law — one of many adopted in GOP-controlled states in the wake of former President Donald Trump's repeated lies about the 2020 election being riddled with fraud.

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