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2026 Election: Texas counties rush to process tens of thousands of backlogged voter registrations
Headline from Fox7 Austin, on the newest of 3 developments
County election offices across Texas are in an "all-hands-on-deck" sprint to process tens of thousands of delayed voter registration records following a technical error at the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).
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Developments in this update
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Texas counties face voter registration backlog after DPS issue
Headline from NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth ·
2026 Texas elections: State error creates huge backlog in voter registration applications as midterm voting nears
Headline from ABC 13 Houston ·
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2026 Election: Texas counties rush to process tens of thousands of backlogged voter registrations
Just weeks before the pivotal midterm elections, Texas election officials have discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications have not been processed due to an error by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Less than two weeks before the Oct. 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 update t…
Just over a month before the midterm elections in November, Texas has a backlog of voter registrations thanks to an error by the state Department of Public Safety. Votebeat reports that an unknown number of voter registration applications have yet to be processed in Texas due to DPS failing to send …
Less than two weeks before the voter registration deadline for the November midterm election, some Texas voter registration applications are still waiting to be processed. Texas DPS Voter Registration Error The problem stems from a Department of Public Safety error.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — County election offices throughout Texas are scrambling to process a massive backlog of voter registration applications stemming from an error at the state level, a headache that is hitting just as they are preparing for voting to begin in the midterm elections.
New county data suggests the DPS voter registration issue is far larger than initially known, with more than 100,000 records identified in six counties alone.
Texas officials sent tens of thousands of delayed voter registration applications to county election officials this week after discovering an error, sparking a scramble to process them weeks out from the midterms.
A Texas system error left tens of thousands of voter registration applications unprocessed for months, forcing county election officials to race to process the large backlogs weeks out from the midterm elections.
Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications — some submitted at least a year ago — remain unprocessed ahead of the November midterms. County election officials have linked the...
Rusk County election workers are processing approximately 800 voter registration applications and updates that were delayed because of a Texas Department of Public Safety system error, according to Rusk County […]
County election offices across Texas are in an "all-hands-on-deck" sprint to process tens of thousands of delayed voter registration records following a technical error at the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).
If you used the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) online portal to update your voter registration in the last year, there’s a chance county officials only recently received your request.
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