Still the only voter ID anyone should need
Texas has a record-breaking 15 million people registered to vote ahead of the November election, the Secretary of State’s office announced Thursday.
Texas has 15,015,700 voters registered according to a preliminary estimate — over 777,000 more than were registered in time for the March primaries. The deadline to register to vote was Tuesday.
“If you want to vote you must be registered, so it’s good to see that so many Texans are preparing for this November’s election,” Secretary of State Carlos Cascos said in a statement. “Registration is just the first step. I encourage Texans to prepare now for this fall’s election.”
In 2012, Texas registered 13,646,226 voters or 75 percent of the voting-age population. In 2008 the number was 13,575,062 or 77 percent of the voting age population, according to the news release. This year’s figure amounts to 78 percent of the voting age population and more than 1.3 million additional registered voters from four years ago, according to the news release.
See here for some background. As we know, there has been a surge in registrations in the big counties as well, as one would expect. Voter registration totals don’t necessarily correlate with turnout, but we are almost certainly headed for a record-breaking year pretty much no matter what. Which, as the Texas Election Law Blog points out, is a very scary proposition to some people, regardless of what the actual outcome of any race may be. Add “Ways to push back against the voter ID court ruling” to the list of things to watch out for in the next legislative session, if you didn’t already have it there. Trail Blazers has more.
Just in case any Texas voters are confused about voter registration cards, the current ones have Columbia blue backgrounds rather than the canary yellow sample shown above.
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