Bexar County elections officials say there have been issues with some voter registration cards that have gone out. It won’t affect you so long as you’re registered.<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO \u2014 More than 100,000 registered Bexar County voters still don’t have their voter registration cards with the 2026 Texas Primary runoffs<\/a> looming.\u00a0<\/p>\n The message from Bexar County’s elections: Don’t panic. So long as you’re registered, it shouldn’t matter at the polls.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSomething the voters need to realize is if they don\u2019t have their voter registration card, it doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re not registered to vote,” Elections Administrator Michele Carew said. “We had a delay in our voter registration cards being sent out with the change over to the secretary of state\u2019s system and in general with redistricting\u2014it was kind of like the perfect storm.”<\/p>\n Carew said the required transition over to the Secretary of State’s new Texas Elections Administratin Management System \u2013 or TEAMS \u2013 has continued to create hiccups for her office. Last year, it resulted in an effort to clear a massive backlog<\/a> just in time for the November election.\u00a0<\/p>\n Now, it’s creating some issues with certain voters’ registration cards. If they have a long or hyphenate last name, or live on a street with a long name, for instance, those names are being cut off.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We\u2019re dealing with about 130,000 registered voters did not receive their cards,” Carew told KENS 5 on Monday, adding there was no indication the state would be able to help in time for the runoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n She reminded the public that the best way to check and be certain if you’re registered is either online here\u00a0<\/a>or by calling the Bexar County Elections Office at 210-335-2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n She also emphasizes that voters know the registration card is just one of\u00a0several acceptable forms of ID<\/a> you’ll need to show at the polls. You can also bring a Texas driver license, a DPS-issued personal identification card, a Texas handgun license, U.S. military ID with your photo, U.S. citizenship certificate with your photo or a U.S. passport.\u00a0<\/p>\n Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, when major nominees like the\u00a0Republican nominee<\/a> for U.S. Senate and the Democratic nominee<\/a> for Bexar County district attorney will be decided ahead of the General Election this fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n The elections office said about twice as many midterm primary runoff voters made it to the polls in 2022 compared to 2018; Carew isn’t ruling out that the numbers could rise again this year. She recommended that voters make a two-part plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Review your ballot. Know where you\u2019re going to vote,” she said. “If you get there at 7 (p.m.), know that you will get the chance to vote. So just stay in line until you get through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bexar County elections officials say there have been issues with some voter registration cards that have gone out.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-308591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}