Greg Abbott Blames Election Officials' Errors for Mail-In Ballot Issues

[Ohio Joe]

Local election officials in Texas have reportedly sent thousands of mail-in ballots back to voters ahead of the state's March 1 primary due to issues with identification requirements. On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Texas Governor Greg Abbott told Newsweek those issues were the fault of the officials who had misinterpreted the state's new voting law.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/greg-abbott-blames-election-officials-errors-for-mail-in-ballot-issues/ar-AATT5zc?ocid=msedgntp

More right wing lies... This is the voter suppression they wanted.

[leftieNanner]

1. It's Possible

That this law will impact Republican voters as well as those dangerous Democrats.

Unintended consequences.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Excuse me gov. Your party is responsible as you pushed this through as fast as you could

To f*ck with Democratic voters.

And just like that it's always someone else's fault.

St. Peter will be busy denying entry to heaven for these phonies.

[Torchlight]

3. A consequence O'Rourke has been loudly trumpeting this afternoon

during his Houston stop.

[uponit7771]

4. Texas is a technically dictatorship, closer to authoritarian than democracy

[ananda]

5. This is why I'm voting in person this week.

Sheesh

[Vinca]

6. Republicans are really fucking stupid. The most likely people to request mail-in ballots are older,

sometimes disabled, individuals. Older voters are known to be more apt to vote Republican than younger voters. If anything, the vote- rigging schemes energize Democratic voters.

[Carlitos Brigante]

7. If he can't even get this "right". How can we expect him to "eliminate rape"? nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. New Texas voting rules causing high number of ballot rejections

SB1 was designed to suppress the vote and this law is working as designed

Link to tweet

Election supervisors in Texas have warned that new stricter voter ID requirements ahead of next month’s state governor’s primary have already resulted in an uncharacteristically high number of ballot rejections.

Voting rights activists have expressed fears that new laws making access to the vote more difficult – that have been passed in many states across the US by Republicans – will impact Democrat-leaning voters of color.

According to officials in media reports, as many as 40% of roughly 3,600 returned ballots in Harris county, Texas’ most populous county that incorporates Houston, have lacked the identification number required under Senate Bill 1, a Republican-sponsored bill designed to tie voters to valid IDs.

In Williamson county, a northern suburb of Austin with a fast-growing population of non-white residents, the rejection rate has been about 25% of early mail-in votes ahead of the 1 March primary which will determine which of the five Democratic challengers, including former US congressman Beto O’Rourke, will likely take on the Republican governor, Greg Abbott.