'Mail ballots are people's votes,' said a Harris County elections administrator who is 'very concerned' about the anti-democratic effects of the Texas GOP's new voter suppression law.
late last week that"even counties that saw few request rejections are now grappling with high rates of faulty ballots."
"That includes Hays County, where about 30% of the voters who had already returned their mail-in ballots had not filled out the ID requirement," noted the ."Those are early figures, as ballots are only starting to trickle in, so Jennifer Anderson, the county's elections administrator, is hoping voter outreach efforts will help curb more errors."
"We usually have a very low rejection rate so it's not something we want to see in Hays County," said Anderson.added that"other suburban counties are seeing similar rates. Election officials in Williamson County said about 30% of completed ballots were missing ID numbers.
While voters are permitted to fix ballot issues, the window to do so is narrow and rapidly closing with Election Day just two weeks away. Officials to see more mistakes between now and March 1, when the vast majority of mail-in ballots arrive. Whether voters are made aware of errors in a timely manner depends in large part on the existence of resources that vary widely across Texas' 254 counties.
"Obviously the main concern, I think, with most election officials is that people that receive ballots by mail may not have the ability to come to the clerk's office," Heather Hawthorne, the county clerk of Chambers County, told the newspaper.
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