ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

Analysis: When 1 in 8 Texas mail ballots gets trashed, that’s vote suppression

Nearly 23,000 Texans voted in this month’s party primaries and saw their mail ballots rejected by election officials, evidently an aftershock from new state laws that were supposed to make voting easier and more secure.

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune
Posted 3/20/22

If you say — or write — that it’s harder to vote in Texas today than it was a year ago, or four years ago, someone will tell you how easy it is and how full of beans you are. But …

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