At the close of early voting for Tuesday's primary, Texas' 15 most-populous counties processed some 77,000 mail-in ballots, representing 0.7% of their registered voters, according to the daily's analysis. Those same counties tallied 126,000 mail-in ballots in early voting ahead of the 2018 midterms, accounting for 1.3% of voters.
Charlie Bonner, communications director for San Antonio-based voter mobilization group MOVE Texas, said elections administrators, lawyers and advocates warned lawmakers in testimony that the bill would suppress voters' access to mail-in voting. "What we're seeing now is heartbreaking but not at all surprising," Bonner said."This is what [Republican lawmakers] were after."
MOVE Texas recommends that voters requesting and using mail-in ballots in future elections write both their drivers license and social security numbers on the ballot to ensure that at least one matches what the state already has on file. The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature passed SB 1 last year over the objections of Democratic lawmakers, who
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