Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error
DPS failed to send the applications, which were submitted by voters through its online driver’s license portal, to county voter registrars for processing, according to an email sent to county officials and provided to Votebeat. The state confirmed to Votebeat that it would begin delivering the unsent registrations to county officials overnight. State officials said the affected transactions produced incomplete voter registration records, which prevented them from being transmitted to county registrars.
- ▪DPS failed to send the applications, which were submitted by voters through its online driver’s license portal, to county voter registrars for processing, according to an email sent to county officials and provided to Votebeat.
- ▪The state confirmed to Votebeat that it would begin delivering the unsent registrations to county officials overnight.
- ▪State officials said the affected transactions produced incomplete voter registration records, which prevented them from being transmitted to county registrars.
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For more information, please read Texas counties are receiving tens of thousands of unprocessed voter registration applications due to state error.Just weeks before the pivotal midterm elections, Texas election officials have discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications have not been processed due to an error by the Texas Department of Public Safety. DPS failed to send the applications, which were submitted by voters through its online driver’s license portal, to county voter registrars for processing, according to an email sent to county officials and provided to Votebeat. The state confirmed to Votebeat that it would begin delivering the unsent registrations to county officials overnight.
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