Texas rejects 2,400 online voter regist as Oct. 9 deadline looms

More than 2,000 potential voters in Texas had their voters' registration applications unfairly rejected by the Texas Secretary of State, a national advocacy group said Wednesday.

Those voters will be barred from voting on Nov. 6 unless they re-submit updated applications with new signatures on them, according to the Secretary of State's office, which will send affected voters the paperwork by mail. It must be resubmitted to the state within 10 days.

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The deadline for voters to register for the Nov. 6 election is Oct. 9. But those being directed to resubmit their paperwork via mail with corrected signatures will still have 10 days to do so, Taylor said.

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This is hardly the first time rules in Texas on voter registration signatures have created a problem. Civil rights groups sued the state in 2016, arguing that the different systems for online and in-person registrants violates the federal National Voter Registration Act, often called Motor Voter. While the state accepts electronic signatures from people who go to a Texas Department of Public Safety Office to change a voter registration, it does not accept changes submitted through the state's online drivers license system.

The Texas Civil Rights Project says the state's practices create confusion for potentially thousands of voters who think they've changed their voting information, but in fact have not.

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