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Texas DPS System Error Delays Thousands of Voter Registrations Before Midterm Deadline

An unknown number of registration applications failed to reach county officials, with just days left before Texas's October 5 cutoff.

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What to know

  • An unknown number of voter registrations submitted through Texas's DPS online portal failed to reach county officials due to a system error that marked applications as incomplete.
  • With only days left until the October 5 registration deadline, county election offices face processing backlogs as the state releases the delayed applications.
  • Voters affected by the error can still vote via provisional ballot if they registered before the deadline; DPS processed roughly 6 million registrations through the portal between 2020 and 2024.

“The state was working with DPS to ensure that the modifications they made to their system to address this issue are not impacting daily files going forward.”

Christina Adkins, Texas state elections director · Newsweek ↗

Christina Adkins Texas state elections directorAlicia Pierce Spokesperson, Texas Secretary of State's OfficeTexas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Agency managing online voter registration portal

Texas DPS System Error Delays Thousands of Voter Registrations Before Midterm Deadline
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    Election officials race to process backlog as registration deadline approaches

    With less than two weeks until Texas's October 5 voter registration deadline, county election offices face added pressure processing the suddenly released batch of registrations. Officials have not disclosed how many voters were affected or what caused the records to be marked incomplete.

    “A voter who registered through DPS online services but does not appear on the rolls can cast a provisional ballot.”
    — Alicia Pierce
    1. 8 outlets Texas DPS voter registration error leaves thousands of applications unprocessed ahead of midterm deadline

      first by FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, 16h ago · also Newsweek, Votebeat, Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun, Mercury News, Philadelphia Inquirer +1

      4 more headlines
    • zoocoup@mastodon.social

      Texans, make sure your voter registration is actually complete https:// apnews.com/article/texas-midte rms-voting-voter-registration-counties-09d7eba234cfdbc42a8ac17f2fdeae55

      zoocoup@mastodon.socialMastodon6h agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    • (insert the "come on, do something" meme here) it took 300,000 years for humans to invent the wheel, some just never evolved beyond that point I guess

      amusednchaosr/politics3h agoview on r/politics ↗

    • It's like a government run by four year olds that think this kind of crap is clever, "they'll never know"

      eugene20r/politics3h agoview on r/politics ↗
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  2. background

    Christina Adkins alerts county officials; state begins sending affected registrations — Christina Adkins, Texas's state elections director, emailed county officials about the error. The state confirmed it would begin delivering the unsent registrations to county officials overnight on Tuesday, September 23.

  3. background

    DPS system error prevents voter registrations from reaching county officials — Texas election officials discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications submitted through the DPS online driver's license portal were being marked as incomplete and not transmitted to county voter registrars for processing.

Also covered reported alongside — the timeline has no entry for these yet

  1. 3 outlets Weeks before election, Texas voter registrations stuck in limbo after massive DPS ‘error’

    first by The Daily Boulder, 16h ago · also The Texas Tribune, CBS News

    2 more headlines
  2. 3 outlets ‘Unknown number of Texas voter registration applications were unprocessed due to DPS error’

    first by Election Law Blog, 16h ago · also New Republic, Votebeat

    2 more headlines

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