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Apr 23, 2007 · About 140 of those charges, or 85%, involved mail-in voter fraud. The proportion of mail-in ballot fraud among all voter fraud offenses through 2020 has decreased since then. According to the data ...
- New Hurdles to Voting by Mail
- Racial Disparities in Mail Ballot Application Rejections
- Racial Disparities in Mail Ballot Rejections
- Overall Rejections
- Data and Methodology
S.B. 1 requires voters to list their ID number on both the mail ballot application and the envelope containing the ballot itself, but to make matters worse, the form for the ID number on the ballot envelope was located under the envelope’s flap. Some voters might not have seen the requirement. Others, as the Texas secretary of state’s office told N...
For the rest of our analyses, we look only at the share of applications and ballots rejected because of problems associated with new requirements under S.B. 1. Thus, if an application or ballot was rejected for another reason, it is included in the denominator but not the numerator in the following. The applications of voters of color were rejected...
Successfully submitting an application for a mail ballot didn’t mean that voters would have no other issues voting. In fact, a much larger percentage of mail ballots than applications were rejected. Even more worryingly, the racial disparities in the ballot rejections were much larger than those in the application rejections. As the figure below ma...
It is important to note that these S.B.–1 related racial disparities compounded over the primary: nonwhite voters were less likely than white voters to obtain a mail ballot because their applications were rejected at much higher rates, and when they were able to obtain one, they were much more likely to have their ballot rejected. In the figure bel...
Throughout our analyses, we rely on two primary data sources: the Texas registered voter file, which was provided by the data vendor L2 and dated May 7, and documents provided by the Texas secretary of state’s office in response to a public records request. The registered voter file includes information on whether and how each voter participated in...
Jul 14, 2021 · According to records from the Texas Attorney General's Office, there were a total of 534 offenses charged to 154 people (some had multiple offenses) for either mail ballot fraud, assistance fraud ...
Oct 19, 2020 · Texas has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country, turning out 45.6% of its population of eligible voters in 2018, compared with a national average of 49.4%, according to the United ...
- Ross Ramsey
Nov 4, 2022 · Fifty-one percent of Black likely voters think voter suppression is the biggest threat to fair elections in the U.S., compared to 38% of Latino likely voters and 22% of white likely voters.
Dec 31, 2021 · FOX 4. Audit finds no widespread fraud during 2020 presidential election in Texas. The state is continuing to investigate nearly 600 votes statewide that may have been cast illegally, but there is ...
Jun 25, 2021 · In a June UT/TT poll, just 19% of voters indicated they think ineligible people frequently cast ballots. A bulk of voters — 42% — believe ineligible votes are rarely or never cast. Even among ...
