Mail-in ballot applications REJECTED in TEXAS !

[reflechissez]

Harris County can't send mail-in ballot applications to all registered voters, Texas Supreme Court rules

the Harris county clerk decided to send everyone in the largest county in Texas mail in ballots

Do you see the difference?

 

[longview]

Bottom line: you made it up.

We have no way of knowing, only that applications were rejected for errors.

 

[longview]

Do you see the difference?

Yes, he was going to waste money on something of which 99% of the recipients did not qualify.
It would be like sending medicare applications to the entire adult population, knowing that few actually meet the requirements.

 

[BlueTex]

Like the 22 million unrequested live ballots sent to every name on every registration roll in the State of California. In the first test of mail-in balloting in the state, ever. What could go wrong, huh?

Universal mail in voting is now the law in California...

California's universal voting by mail becomes permanent

The new law is part of an evolution of voting in the state, an effort to provide voters more options for when and where to cast their ballots.

www.latimes.com

 

[j brown's body]

Yes, he was going to waste money on something of which 99% of the recipients did not qualify.
It would be like sending medicare applications to the entire adult population, knowing that few actually meet the requirements.

So why not let them qualify?

 

[longview]

Universal mail in voting is now the law in California...

California's universal voting by mail becomes permanent

The new law is part of an evolution of voting in the state, an effort to provide voters more options for when and where to cast their ballots.

www.latimes.com

And it has existed in Washington state for several decades. so what?

 

[j brown's body]

Like the 22 million unrequested live ballots sent to every name on every registration roll in the State of California. In the first test of mail-in balloting in the state, ever. What could go wrong, huh?

Colorado has done all mail-in for years with no problems.

 

[reflechissez]

We have no way of knowing, only that applications were rejected for errors.

then why are you posting as if you know?

 

[longview]

So why not let them qualify?

The law is already clear on who qualifies to vote by mail in Texas.
As far as changing that, the systems would have to be in place to make it work, but are not currently.

 

[Grim17]

Sure, as long as someone who doesn't normally have a driver's license can get a photo ID for free and easily..................or else it goes against the XXIV Amendment. (poll tax)

To my knowledge, anyone who want a voter ID and can't afford to pay for it, is issued one free.

 

[longview]

To my knowledge, anyone who want a voter ID and can't afford to pay for it, is issued one free.

In Texas that is correct.

 

[reflechissez]

Yes, he was going to waste money on something of which 99% of the recipients did not qualify.
It would be like sending medicare applications to the entire adult population, knowing that few actually meet the requirements.

You seamlessly glided from actual "ballots" to "ballot applications." This is a good first start.
Why would 99% of the recipients not qualify?

 

[tres borrachos]

The social security number thing will keep millions of Dem voters from checking the "X" for more free stuff.
What a shame.

Can your post be any more stupid?

 

[BlueTex]

And it has existed in Washington state for several decades. so what?

Texas could save a lot of money and raise turnout if they adopted something similar... Our turnout and participation numbers are pathetic...

 

[JohnnyDollar]

Texas rejecting hundreds of mail-in ballot applications under new voting rules

Election officials in some of the state’s largest counties are rejecting an alarming number of mail-in applications because they don’t meet the state’s new identification requirements. Some applica…

www.kxan.com

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) —" Hundreds of Texans seeking to vote by mail in the upcoming March primary elections are seeing their applications for ballots rejected by local election offices trying to comply with stricter voting rules enacted by Texas Republicans last year.

Election officials in some of the state’s largest counties are rejecting an alarming number of mail-in applications because they don’t meet the state’s new identification requirements. Some applications are being rejected because of a mismatch between the new identification requirements and the data the state has on file to verify voters."

THe details can be found in the article, half the applicatios for ballots had a different ID number than what was stored in official county records. Please recall, mail in ballots can be requested in Texas, only for seniors, diabled folks and folks who can prove they won't be in the county during the election days. So we are not talking about college kids in Austin, or work-a-day typical people, the folks making these requests are preparing for the March 1 primary, so time might be limited .

"Under Texas’ new voting law, absentee voters must include their driver’s license number or state ID number or, if they don’t have one, the last four digits of their Social Security number on their applications. If they don’t have those IDs, voters can indicate they have not been issued that identification. Counties must match those numbers against the information in an individual’s voter file to approve them for a mail-in ballot."

Here's a summary from August of the parts of the law, I believe all these points made it into the final law.

The hard-fought Texas voting bill is poised to become law. Here's what it does.

Senate Bill 1 would set new rules for voting by mail, boost protections for partisan poll watchers and roll back local voting initiatives meant to make it easier to vote, namely those championed by Harris County that were disproportionately used by voters of color.

www.texastribune.org

The problem is that for other texans who are not seniors or disabled, won't the same thing happen when they try to register? The point is that if this is a problem for a predominantly white county, among seniors and disabled folks,
can we expect to see more preelection confusion from the Great State of Texas this November?

OR , is this evidence that half the county is trying to vote illegally?

OR is this an example that the NEW Voter Integrity law working in Texas?

This is good news. Glad to see Texas doing the right thing.

 

[JohnnyDollar]

Texas could save a lot of money and raise turnout if they adopted something similar... Our turnout and participation numbers are pathetic...

That's because liberal progressives are pathetic.

 

[BlueTex]

The law is already clear on who qualifies to vote by mail in Texas.
As far as changing that, the systems would have to be in place to make it work, but are not currently.

What kind of systems would they need that don't already exist for absentee ballots?

 

[BlueTex]

This is good news. Glad to see Texas doing the right thing.

It's the "right thing" to disenfranchise voters?

 

[JohnnyDollar]

It's the "right thing" to disenfranchise voters?

How are they disenfranchising voters? Voters can still vote.

 

[BlueTex]

How are they disenfranchising voters? Voters can still vote.

How will the voters being discussed here be able to vote if they never receive a ballot?

 

[longview]

What kind of systems would they need that don't already exist for absentee ballots?

From what I have heard, it takes a lot more man power to validate a mail in ballot, but I am not sure if that is true.

 

[rahl]

The social security number thing will keep millions of Dem voters from checking the "X" for more free stuff.
What a shame.

huh?

 

[Rawley]

Universal mail in voting is now the law in California...

California's universal voting by mail becomes permanent

The new law is part of an evolution of voting in the state, an effort to provide voters more options for when and where to cast their ballots.

www.latimes.com

Yep. Given the state of our ridiculous registration rolls, a frigging joke.

 

[Rawley]

Colorado has done all mail-in for years with no problems.

Good for you. Then again, the population of your entire state is just slightly more than half of the population of my county alone.

 

[Moon]

Universal mail-in ballots means everyone can vote by mail, not that everybody is forced to vote.

No one has said otherwise. Texas chooses not to go that route.