The state makes it unnecessarily difficult to register to vote.
Provided/ Lone Star CollegeIn Texas, we experience dismal rates of voter turnout in our elections, with 9.6 million eligible voters sitting out the 2022 election, includingof those younger than 30. That’s because Texas makes it unnecessarily difficult to register to vote.
We do, however, have one important tool to increase youth voting numbers — a little-followed but visionarythat requires every high school, public and private, to offer voter registration forms twice a year to students at or near voting age. Only 18 percent of high school administrators in the 2020-21 school year requested voter registration forms through the process required by law. That’s a huge drop from the most recent peak of compliance during the 2019-20 school year,The reality of virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and the lack of electronic voter registration in Texas are factors.
Our state leaders must do more. It’s well within our ability to turn this around and build generations of Texans who will be lifelong committed voters.First, we need to get the word out. Consider going to your school board or high school administrators to ask if they’re aware of the law and how they plan on following it.
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