Texas counties face voter registration backlog after DPS issue

The useful part

5 deadline to register to vote in Texas, county elections statewide are dealing with an unexpected backlog of registrations. Election officials said it's due to an issue with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the online process many Texans use to register to vote when updating their driver's license information. Millions of Texans use the DPS portal to register to vote when renewing their driver's license or updating their address.

How it works

• Officials said it is working to understand the scope of the backlog, but it appears large North Texas counties may have received tens of thousands of applications in the last 24 hours.
• "It's all kind of relative to the county size, but you know, we're seeing in the large urban counties tens of thousands of applications coming in.

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In the smaller jurisdictions it may only be a hundred but again, if you're a one-person office a hundred applications can be burdensome to process." "It seems like these are applications dating back to October of last year and they are anything that people have changed in the DPS onl...