By Joseph Ax and Moira Warburton (Reuters) - Thousands of Texas voters' mail-in ballots for midterm primary elections have been rejected for failing t.
Local elections officials say an unexpectedly large number of ballots for the March primary are being initially rejected for lacking newly required ID information.
Stricter voting rules enacted by Republican lawmakers last year continue to foil Texans trying to vote by mail in the upcoming primary, with hundreds of completed ballots being initially rejected for not meeting the state’s new identification requirements. The bulk of mail-in ballots have yet to ar.