Bexar County’s Elections Administrator Michele Carew says a big backlog of recent voter registration purposes has formally been taken care of in time for the Nov. 4 election.
The voter registration deadline for this November’s election was Monday, Oct. 6.
Carew mentioned Wednesday that every one purposes acquired earlier than then have been processed, due to quite a few short-term staff introduced on to assist workers 14-hour work days.
Bexar County was thrust right into a chaotic transition course of when its longtime voter registration vendor, Votec, went beneath this summer season — on the identical time the state’s system was present process a large replace.
That left Carew’s workplace to course of about 72,000 backlogged purposes between Oct. 1, when the county went dwell on the state’s registration system, and the beginning of early voting, on Oct. 20, she mentioned.
“I need to prolong my deepest gratitude to the Commissioners Courtroom, Texas Secretary of State, and my complete staff, together with short-term workers. Their efforts made this doable,” Carew mentioned in a press release Wednesday.
New voters could not have acquired their voter registration playing cards within the mail, she mentioned, however can nonetheless vote utilizing their driver’s license or different types of authorized identification.
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