Texas voter registration applications caught in state error
The gist
A Texas DPS error left tens of thousands of voter registration applications unprocessed.
Counties have under two weeks before the Oct. 5 deadline to process them.
How it unfolded
- Oct 2025The issue began in the Texas Department of Public Safety, which allows people to register to vote or update their registrations when they renew a driver's license.
- Sep 22, 2026Votebeat reported an unknown number of Texas voter registration applications had not been processed because DPS failed to send applications submitted through its online driver's license portal to county voter registrars. The state confirmed it would begin delivering the unsent registrations to county officials overnight.
- Sep 23, 2026Tens of thousands of applications, some dating back at least a year, were caught in a backlog, the leader of an association of county election officials said. DPS said the system issue had been resolved and that it worked with the secretary of state's office to backfill incomplete records.