{"id":447050,"date":"2026-09-25T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447050\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:30:14","slug":"texas-dps-voter-file-backlog-leaves-dallas-and-collin-racing-to-process-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447050\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas DPS voter file backlog leaves Dallas and Collin racing to process \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a month before early voting begins, Dallas County elections officials are sorting through 68,104 voter registrations that were filed through Texas\u2019 online drivers license portal since October 2025 but never transmitted to the county, a spokesperson confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>In Collin County, officials received more than 40,000 backlogged files this week, said Elections Administrator Kaleb Breaux.<\/p>\n<p>While the technical debacle originating at the Texas Department of Public Safety is landing on the shoulders of counties across the state before the midterms, local officials say they plan to rectify the problem before the first day of early voting Oct. 19. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDallas County Elections is committed to ensuring every eligible voter registration record is processed accurately and timely,\u201d spokesperson Nic Solorzano said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from DPS and the Texas Secretary of State\u2019s office have yet to explain exactly how the errors occurred for nearly a year without detection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/elections\/article\/dallas-collin-counties-process-100-000-22447423.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read more on this report from our partners at The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than a month before early voting begins, Dallas County elections officials are sorting through 68,104 voter registrations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[960,102,581,104,103,6288,2785],"class_list":["post-447050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-collin-county","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-decision-2026","tag-texas-dps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447050","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=447050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}