Texas ballot rejection rate: counties that lean Democratic (15.1%) than Republican (9.1%).

[Demovictory9]

Texas Ballot Rejections Soar Thanks To GOP-Backed Voting Rules, AP Finds
The number of rejected mail ballots in Texas soared to nearly 13% across most counties in the nation's first election of 2022.

Roughly 13% of mail ballots returned in the March 1 primary were discarded and uncounted across 187 counties in Texas. While historical primary comparisons are lacking, the double-digit rejection rate would be far beyond what is typical in a general election, when experts say anything above 2% is usually cause for attention.


“My first reaction is ‘yikes,’” said Charles Stewart III, director of the Election Data and Science Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It says to me that there’s something seriously wrong with the way that the mail ballot policy is being administered.”

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The AP counted 22,898 rejected ballots across Texas by contacting all 254 counties and obtaining final vote reconciliation reports. Some smaller counties did not provide data or respond to requests, but the 187 counties that provided full numbers to AP accounted for 85% of the 3 million people who voted in the primary.

Last week, AP reported that 27,000 ballots had been flagged in Texas for initial rejection, meaning those voters still had time to “fix” their ballot for several days after the primary and have it count. But the final figures suggest most voters did not.

The most rejections were around Houston, a Democratic stronghold, where Harris County elections officials reported that nearly 7,000 mail ballots — about 19% — were discarded. During the last midterm elections in 2018, Texas’ largest county only rejected 135 mail ballots. Harris County elections officials said they received more than 8,000 calls since January from voters seeking help, which they attributed to “confusion and frustration” over the new requirements.

[uponit7771]

1. K, so ... people tell me how GOTV does anything against these tactics?!!? Belarus's leader uses ...

... very similar tactics as this to win elections.

Texas is a dictatorship akin to Belarus where they KNOW these tactics for voter denial (which is beyond simple suppression) WORK !!

1. pressure dem polls to call in markers for folk with money to start a campaign for saving democracy here at home.

2. Paint GZP as antidemocratic, let the country know what they're doing to the peoples vote

3. Plan brute force voting for Nov but with more help than usual to assist in getting around GZP tactics.

4. hell, I don't know