October 5 was the registration deadline for Texas’ November 3 election; voters should verify records and keep documentation.

Aqua RichJo | September 26, 2026 The known backlog of delayed Texas voter-registration records has reached at least 200,000. Applications and updates submitted through the Department of Public Safety’s online driver’s license portal were not sent to counties as expected. DPS now says the problem was connected to an October 2025 software update by a third-party vendor. People using the portal had no warning that their information had stalled. Counties must now process those de

Aqua Jones | September 25, 2026 Dallas County has received more than 68,000 voter-registration records that were delayed by a state transmission error. Collin County received about 40,000. Across seven counties that have reported figures, the known total exceeds 178,000 records—and Texas still has not said exactly what caused the failure. Let’s get the number right: 178,000 records does not necessarily mean 178,000 people lost their right to vote. The files include applicatio

Aqua RichJo| September 25, 2026 Crystal Mason cast a provisional ballot in 2016. It was never counted. The Fort Worth woman was still convicted of illegal voting, sentenced to five years in prison and left to fight the case for nearly a decade. Now her acquittal stands. On September 24, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed prosecutors’ request to review the ruling that cleared Mason. The court said it had improvidently granted review, meaning it should not have taken

Aqua RichJo| September 24, 2026 More than 40,000 voter registration records have landed in Collin County for review. That does not mean 40,000 people were left unregistered—but with Texas’ October 5 deadline approaching, voters deserve to know whether their own records made it through. The records came from a backlog of applications and updates submitted through the Texas Department of Public Safety’s online driver’s-license portal. Some records were never sent to county vote

Texas county election offices are receiving a backlog of voter registration records that the Department of Public Safety did not previously transmit from its online driver’s-license services. The discovery comes less than two weeks before October 5, the deadline to register for the November 3 election.