Texas' New Voting Law Is an 'Absolute Nightmare' [View all]

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Noah Bookbinder
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The effects of Texas’ new voting law—including a rise in rejected mail-in voting applications & ballots and limited resources for election workers—are a reminder of why we need to keep up the fight to pass national voting rights protections.

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Texas’ New Voting Law Is an ‘Absolute Nightmare’
Election administrators in Texas are reporting a record number of ballot rejections—and early voting has only just begun.
12:30 PM · Feb 14, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-voting-law-sb1-is-absolute-nightmare


A rapid rise in rejected mail-in voting applications and ballots. Limited resources among election workers. Confusion galore, and a March 1 primary election quickly approaching.

This is the reality in Texas as SB 1—a controversial voting bill signed into law last year—goes into effect. With primary voting already underway, election officials, advocates, and everyday voters are struggling to navigate the newly enacted rules, with little room for error.

And folks on the ground are sounding the alarm, concerned about disenfranchisement among perfectly eligible voting populations.

“Honestly, it’s been an absolute nightmare,” Charlie Bonner, communications director for the voting-rights group MOVE Texas, told The Daily Beast.

SB 1 is jam-packed with new rules for voting throughout Texas. Among those is a provision requiring voters to provide a driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number on their mail-in voting applications and ballots. The number provided must match what the state has on file for any given voter.

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