Technical error causes major Texas voter registration backlog - KCBD

Texas election officials say the error created incomplete voter registration records that county offices couldn't process, according to a Texas Tribune report cited by KCBD. In the past 24 hours, county voter registrars across the state started seeing a wave of new registrations and updates finally coming through from DPS. Here on the South Plains, the Hockley County Elections office is among those working through the backlog.

Anyone who registered to vote or updated their registration through DPS, whether at a driver's license office or online, could be affected if their paperwork got caught in the glitch. Some records sat unprocessed for months before the recent fix.

For people in Lubbock and surrounding counties, double-checking your voter registration status matters right now, especially if you registered or updated your address through DPS since last year. A registration that never reached your county registrar could mean confusion at the polls, or worse, getting turned away.

Thousands of Texans found out their paperwork was in DPS limbo not because anyone told them, but because a reporter did.