Tarrant County elections officials say some people still aren’t following the new voting rules, and that means a lot of votes are in danger of not being counted.
Last year, state lawmakers passed new rules they say will make it harder to cheat. Mail-in ballots now require either your driver’s license number or your social security number.
Election officials say some people aren’t filling out the form the right way, they’re leaving out those important numbers, or they put one down that doesn’t match the information on file with the elections office.
Tarrant County Elections Administrator Heider Garcia recommends putting both numbers down, just in case, to avoid any confusion.
The good news is that voters whose ballots are being questioned have until six days after the election to correct them.
To put it in perspective: officials say 25 percent of mail-in ballots are getting rejected in Tarrant County. Thats one in four. And other Texas counties have reported the same problem.
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