A new report from the Texas Secretary of State's Office shows nearly 25,000 mail-in ballots were rejected during the March 1st party primaries. The Texas Legislature last year approved a new law requiring people voting by mail to also include information about the identification document they provided when they registered to vote.
Before that law, the average rejection rate for mail-in ballots was about 1%. For the party primaries, that went up to just over 12%. People voting by mail are required to supply either their driver’s license number, state ID number or the last four digits of their Social Security number. Critics of the new security measure have said it can be difficult for people to determine which form of ID they used when registering to vote.
"Today’s announcement...is deeply troubling and a sad indication that too many voters, including many older voters, are being disenfranchised because of changes made to the state’s vote-by-mail program," said AARP Texas Director Tina Tran.
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