Bexar County elections official on state's new mail-in ballot rules: 'It's just ridiculous'

[TexasTowelie]

Among the many new restrictions and criminal penalties related to voting now in place in Texas, Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacquelyn Callanen was particularly frustrated with one on Tuesday as county officials set in motion the March 1 primary.

Election offices can send a mail-in ballot application to someone only if it is requested.

If a resident calls the office to request an application, that individual cannot also request one for her husband, for example, Callanen explained during a Bexar County Commissioners Court meeting. “We have to hear it from him. … It’s just ridiculous.”

Another new rule related to the application requires voters to provide, on both their vote-by-mail application and the actual ballot, their driver’s license number or Social Security number — and they must choose the same number for both.

Callanen said 42 of the 80 applications for mail-in ballots the Elections Department received Monday were rejected because they violated one of the new rules.

Read more: https://sanantonioreport.org/bexar-county-elections-mail-in-ballots/

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1. I just received one from the local Democratic party, like they send every year.

Wondered if it was okay.