(Texas) Voter ID law a headache for officials
By Gloria Padilla : August 28, 2013
... A preliminary comparison of the 13.8 million names on the state's voter registration rolls against Texas Department of Public Safety records resulted in a match of only 7 million of those names ...
If a voting official deems the names “substantially similar” a voter is off the hook, sort of. He or she will still be required to sign an affidavit stating he/she is the person named in the two documents. However, if the voting official cannot readily make a connection between names, the voter will have to cast a provisional ballot, which takes longer to fill out and process.
The state had recommended local election administrators send out letters to voters advising them their voter cards and IDs need to match, but the postage cost has made that prohibitive. With about 890,000 registered voters in Bexar County, that mailout would have cost more than $400,000 ...
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/columnists/gloria_padilla/article/Voter-ID-law-a-headache-for-officials-4768996.php
= new reply since forum marked as read
