Rejected Mail Ballots Are Showing Racial Disparities

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18. This is exactly why Texas changes the law on signature matching.

The former law required matching to a signature no more than six years old. The new law allows the matching on any signature on file—the clerk’s choice. So a 30-year old signature is unlikely to EXACTLY match the same person’s signature today, thus giving an excuse to throw out ballots with Hispanic or other ethnic names and ballots from certain ZIP codes. Elections clerks are given no training in how to evaluate signatures.

With the new Texas requirements, which are similar to the secret handshake you only know if you’re part of the right group, around 59% of requests for mail ballots are being rejected, along with as much as 50% f voter registrations because people aren’t filling out a form correctly since it has conflicting information. And one of the worst decisions ever, you have to put your Social Security number on both the inside ballot and on the outside envelope to be mailed where anyone can see it and record it with the mailer’s name for use in security fraud. Way to go Texas Republican idiots!