Texas flagged 27,000 mail ballots for rejection in primary

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Texas flagged 27,000 mail ballots for rejection in primary

By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO
March 9, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — More than 27,000 mail ballots in Texas were flagged for rejection in the first test of new voting restrictions enacted across the U.S., jeopardizing votes cast by Democrats and Republicans alike and in counties big and small, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

It puts the rate of rejected mail ballots in Texas on track to significantly surpass previous elections. The preliminary figures — reported by Texas counties after votes were counted in the state’s March 1 primary — is the fullest picture to date of how new election rules rushed into place by Republicans following the 2020 election made it harder for thousands of voters in both parties. Some will wind up not having their ballots count at all.

Rejected mail ballots are relatively uncommon in a typical election. But the initial rejection rate among mail voters in the Texas primary was roughly 17% across 120 counties, according to county-by-county figures obtained by AP. Those counties accounted for the vast majority of the nearly 3 million voters in Texas’ first-in-the-nation primary.

Although the final number of discounted ballots will be lower, the early numbers suggest Texas’ rejection rate will far exceed the 2020 general election, when federal data showed that less than 1% of mail ballots statewide were rejected.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-elections-austin-texas-voting-f28a41bf6482c25299c99a8ea52734be

[leftieNanner]

1. Operating as designed. nt

[Rebl2]

2. Hopefully

the majority of them were from republicans

[lees1975]

3. It's an attempt to prove that mail-in balloting is inaccurate and fradulent because they lost 2020

and maybe, in Texas, where they can't figure out how to do it right, it's a problem. But in more educated and sophisticated places where they've been doing it for years, it's just fine.

If there were "massive voter fraud" due to mail-in ballots in 2020 that cost Trump the election, then it would have taken a massive number of Trump-supporting Republicans to make it happen. Either they were just too stupid and dumb to see fraud in front of their noses, or they just didn't want the orange headed scumbag to win.

It's hard to tell a Republican vote from a Democratic vote in a mail-in envelope, so good luck, Texas voters, there's a good chance you're wasting your time and energy by voting. I suggest that every Republican just stay home so you don't have to worry about it.