{"id":468241,"date":"2026-10-16T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468241\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:24:09","slug":"15000-texas-voter-registrations-caught-up-in-backlog-after-another-state-software-error-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468241\/","title":{"rendered":"15,000 Texas voter registrations caught up in backlog after another state software error \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"EarlyEarly voting runs from Oct. 19 to Oct. 30. Election Day is Nov. 3. Election officials in several Texas counties are working to clear the latest voter registration backlog caused by a software error on a state website. The glitch affected voters who updated their records between Sept. 1 and last week. (Julia Reihs | KUT News)<\/p>\n

A software error has caused another backlog in Texas\u2019 voter registration logs.<\/p>\n

The glitch caused by \u201can extra address validation\u201d affected Texans who updated their names and addresses<\/a> on the state\u2019s government record portal, texas.gov<\/a>, between Sept. 1 and last week, according to an email sent out by the Texas Secretary of State\u2019s office on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Texas Association of County Election Officials, or TACEO, initially estimated more than 5,200 voter registration applications across at least four counties: 3,000 in Bexar, 400 in Hays, 700 in Williamson and 1,100 in Travis.<\/p>\n

Many of those updated records were still missing voters\u2019 new addresses, TACEO said in an email shared with The Texas Newsroom.<\/p>\n

Alicia Pierce, a spokesperson for the Secretary of State\u2019s office, said the agency sent 15,000 records back to counties.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s notice, which The Texas Newsroom obtained Friday, says not all Texas counties were affected. Pierce could not confirm which specific counties the software error impacted.<\/p>\n

She added that the issue was discovered and has been resolved, and voters will still be able to cast a ballot.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur office has been working with counties, and they have now received the records in time to update the registrations ahead of the start of early voting,\u201d Pierce wrote in an email to The Texas Newsroom.<\/p>\n

But county officials now have limited time to clear this up. Before early voting begins Monday morning, they must determine which registrations were submitted by the state\u2019s Oct. 5 deadline and add those to the Official List of Registered Voters.<\/p>\n

This latest wrench in the system comes only days after Texas election officials said they cleared<\/a> an earlier voter registration backlog. That issue, which was caused by an error prompted by a Texas Department of Public Safety software update, impacted more than 500,000 voter registrations submitted since October 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just shifting county resources away from preparation for early voting to now working through additional timely voter registration applications that we just now received,\u201d said Kristin Miles, the Bastrop County Elections Administrator and president of TACEO.<\/p>\n

Bastrop County received notice of 70 affected records Thursday, Miles said. Although dozens were processed last night, she said 30 are incomplete because voters\u2019 updated addresses didn\u2019t come in through TEAM, the state\u2019s voter registration system. The county\u2019s waiting on a response from the Secretary of State\u2019s office on how to move forward, Miles said.<\/p>\n

County officials have long aired their struggles<\/a> with the TEAM system, which administrators say is prone to issues and causes delays in processing voter registrations.<\/p>\n

Voters should receive registration certificates in the mail following name or address updates that confirm the changes. Any Texan who wants to verify whether changes to their voter registration was processed can check online by visiting votetexas.gov or contact their county voter registrar.<\/p>\n

This story has been updated with comments from the Texas Secretary of State\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early voting runs from Oct. 19 to Oct. 30. Election Day is Nov. 3. Election officials in several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39794,6481,223,287,27,29,28,4516,2279],"class_list":["post-468241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-election-2026","tag-kut","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-voter-registration","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468241","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=468241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}