Texas DPS’ voter registration problems were flagged months before notice went out to local election officials

County elections administrators have received at least 500,000 applications that need to be processed before Monday’s registration deadline.

By Natalia Contreras, Votebeat and The Texas Tribune
Posted 10/6/26

Six months before the Texas Department of Public Safety and Secretary of State’s Office were forced to send hundreds of thousands of backlogged voter registration records to local county officials, …

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