A computer glitch delayed nearly 600,000 voter registrations in Texas.
County election officials claim they largely cleared the backlog by Wednesday, but the incident still raised alarms and prompted a lawsuit from voting rights groups. According to the New York Times: > The lawsuit, which named Mr. Howden and Freeman F. Martin, director of the Department of Public Safety, among its defendants, said the backlog had resulted from a programming error on a website for driver’s license applications that was also supposed to allow applicants to register to vote. > Because of the error, voters who checked “yes” to register to vote between December 2025 and February 2026 received a receipt confirming their choice, but their data was never recorded, the lawsuit said. [Link: Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations in Texas as Early Voting Looms | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/politics/texas-voter-registration-lawsuit.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share | New York Times]
County election officials claim they largely cleared the backlog by Wednesday, but the incident still raised alarms and prompted a lawsuit from voting rights groups. According to the New York Times: > The lawsuit, which named Mr. Howden and Freeman F. Martin, director of the Department of Public Safety, among its defendants, said the backlog had resulted from a programming error on a website for driver’s license applications that was also supposed to allow applicants to register to vote. > Because of the error, voters who checked “yes” to register to vote between December 2025 and February 2026 received a receipt confirming their choice, but their data was never recorded, the lawsuit said. [Link: Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations in Texas as Early Voting Looms | | New York Times]
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