A Texas Voter Registration Mess at the Worst Time Possible

A DPS-Secretary of State data glitch and Abbott's data-center U-turn add volatility to an already razor-thin, $400M+ Texas Senate race.

• Voter registration backlog: Sen. Paul Bettencourt says several hundred thousand (over half a million) Motor Voter registrations from DPS sat undelivered to counties for nearly a year before a fix pushed them through ahead of the October 5 deadline.
• Provisional ballots as backstop: Bettencourt says affected voters can cast provisional ballots and county registrars (e.g., Harris County's Annette Ramirez) will verify and count them after Election Day.

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