{"id":453617,"date":"2026-10-01T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453617\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:50:08","slug":"tarrant-county-processing-74000-voter-registration-files-grapevine-colleyville-southlake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453617\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant County processing 74,000 voter registration files | Grapevine &#8211; Colleyville &#8211; Southlake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarrantcountytx.gov\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tarrant County<\/a> election officials plan to finish working through more than 70,000 voter registration files stemming from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Texas Department of Public Safety<\/a> data error.<\/p>\n<p>Officials expect to finish the review of all pending records by Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<p>What happened<\/p>\n<p>Tarrant County officials learned of a voter data issue from the Department of Public Safety in mid-September and received 74,000 individual files from the department Sept. 23. Tarrant County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarrantcountytx.gov\/en\/elections\/current-election-information.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Elections<\/a> Administrator Clinton Ludwig said the number of files does not represent a number of new voters as some of the files may be an update to an existing voter registration.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Department of Public Safety officials found a data error where voter registration forms or information updates were not passed from the department to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Secretary of State<\/a> and then to county officials. The data error covered 590,000 files.<\/p>\n<p>Ludwig said some of the files appear to go back as far as October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Tarrant County elections staff have been working mandatory overtime and brought in temporary staff to work through the files. Ludwig said about 60,000 files have been processed so far.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>The voter registration deadline for the Nov. 3 election is Oct. 5. Ludwig said voter registrations submitted before the deadline will be processed normally.<\/p>\n<p>Voters can check the status of their registration <a href=\"https:\/\/gisit.tarrantcounty.com\/TCVL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If a voter shows up and is not in the poll book, they may request a provisional ballot and election staff will verify their eligibility. If they are an eligible voter, the ballot will be counted, Ludwig said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarrant County election officials plan to finish working through more than 70,000 voter registration files stemming from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,155836,409,122,138079,155838,6877,155837,4516],"class_list":["post-453617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-clinton-ludwig","tag-election","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tarrant-county-elections","tag-tarrant-county-voter-registration","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-voter-data-error","tag-voter-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453617","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=453617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}