Local election officials in Texas are reporting a drop in the percentage of mail ballots that have so far been flagged for rejection during the ongoing midterm elections, as compared with a spike earlier this year.
Sam Taylor, assistant secretary of state for communications, attributes the decrease in the mail ballot rejection rate to updates to the return ballot in some Texas counties, as well as additional voter information included in mail ballots by local officials.
Taylor also said rejection rates were always likely to improve as"voters got used to" the new mail ballot process.Harris County — which is home to Houston, and is the state's most populous and diverse county — so far has a higher rejection rate than the state average. Chris Davis — the elections supervisor in suburban Williamson County, north of Austin — reported this week that the rejection rate in his county has hovered around 3 to 4%. He said he thinks some voters"have a couple of elections under their belt" under the new rules at this point, so rejection rates are slightly lower. During the March primary, officials there rejected 11.5% of returned mail ballots.
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