A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers from the San Antonio area say fixing the state’s restrictive new voting law should be a top priority at the Capitol next year. The law led to thousands of rejected mail-in ballots last month.
, absentee voters must include on their applications their driver’s license number, state ID number or, if they don’t have one, the last four digits of their Social Security number. If they don’t have those IDs, voters can indicate they have not been issued that identification. Counties must match those numbers against the information in an individual’s voter file to approve them for a mail-in ballot.
“The damage has been done,” Menéndez said of the rejected ballots, adding that the intention of the law was “without a doubt” to make it more difficult for Texans to cast their votes. Bernal, who represents much of the city’s downtown area in Texas House District 123, echoed Menéndez’s comments.Lujan, the sole Republican on the panel, agreed that fixing the voting law should be on a “priority list” during the next legislative session, but also brought up the need to protect election integrity, a common theme among Republicans who have called for legislation to tackle voter fraud, despite the lack of evidence of a widespread problem.
“I just don’t know enough about the bill. I haven’t read it,” he said, but noted that it bothered him that the legislation wasn’t a bipartisan effort.
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