Garcia: County officials determined to avoid repeat of mail-ballot disaster
Voters make their way to hand deliver their mail ballots at the Bexar County Elections headquarters on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. At the same time, at the other end of the building, voters were waiting in line to cast their votes during the third day of early voting.Two Texas institutions, one of them soulful and big-hearted, the other one churlish and exclusionary.
“If they’re doing it to Willie Nelson,” she said, “what happens to an 89-year-old woman at home without a lot of help?”Statewide, almost 23,000 mail ballots were tossed out for the March 1 primary. It’s the sad product of Senate Bill 1, the Republican-driven election law enacted last year; a piece of legislation so divisive that House Democrats broke quorum and bolted to Washington D.C. in a futile bid to block its passage.
They banned election officials from sending unsolicited mail-ballot applications to voters, even though candidates routinely send those same applications to their supporters. Let’s say you provided a Social Security number when you registered to vote, but used your driver’s license number on the mail ballot . Even if both forms are correct, your ballot will get thrown out because the numbers don’t match.Rodriguez says his mother had her mail ballot rejected, even though she accurately completed the ballot. She simply failed to include the newly required information on the envelope.
“We’re not trying to skirt the law,” Rodriguez said. “But is there something that we can do that just makes compliance with the law any easier?
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