Hundreds of requests have come into county offices statewide, and many are being rejected. That's because of a new law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott last year.
The new voter ID requirement on mail-in ballots is starting to cause some issues for elections officials, and voters may not even know their application had an error on it. Voters who chose to vote by mail are requesting ballots. But the new election law signed by Gov. Abbott last year is causing some applications to be rejected.
The problem is if both forms of identification aren’t on file and a voter only lists one of them and it’s wrong, the request is rejected. "I will tell you as the numbers increase of the applications, as they come in and when voters start returning their mail ballots and if they're voting by mail, we could see those numbers fluctuate and increase quite a bit," Sherbet said.
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