Elections Administrator: Incomplete Ballot by Mail Applications Are Being Rejected

SAN ANGELO – The new Texas election integrity law has affected each of the 254 county election offices in Texas and Tom Green County is no exception. 

Tom Green County Elections Administrator Vona Hudson Thursday released details about voting by mail.  The deadline to apply to vote by mail is Friday, Feb. 18.  

The deadline to apply for a ballot by mail (the application must be in our office) is 2/18.  Voters are not completing the application in its entirety, especially the ID information.  We have to reject it and, at this point, there is not enough time to get it corrected via mail.

Further, the ballots that were mailed to voters for voting purposes also require the voter to complete a section with their ID information.  This is not being done by a majority of the voters that have returned their ballots so far.  If the voter provides their phone number and/or email address, an effort will be made to contact them to let them know they need to make a correction.

Tom Green County now has voting equipment with a paper audit trail.  Voters are provided a code to vote and a piece of paper to insert in the machine.  Once the voter has voted on the touchscreen, they will have an option to print the ballot.  Their choices will be printed on that piece of paper for them to review.  This paper is not for the voter to keep.  It must be scanned to have it cast and counted.

Early voting will continue until 2/25.  Hours are:

2/18       8 am to 5 pm

2/19       7 am to 7 pm

2/20       12 – 6 pm

2/22 – 2/25         7 am to 7 pm

There will no voting on Monday, 2/21.

Early Voting locations include:

Main Branch / Rama principal

Edd B. and Frances Frink Keyes Building; 113 W. Beauregard Ave. 1st Floor/primer piso

EV Branch 1 / EV Rama 1

            Concho Valley Transit District (Bus Depot), Annex Building; 510 N. Chadbourne

EV Branch 2 / EV Rama 2

            Westlake Ace Hardware; 1821 Knickerbocker Rd.

EV Branch 3 / EV Rama 3

            Grape Creek ISD, Gene Marsh Board Room; 8207 N US Highway 87

EV Branch 4 / EV Rama 4

MHMR Services of the Concho Valley, Admin. Bldg., Jack Ray Room; 1501 W. Beauregard Ave.

The Texas Secretary of State released more detailed information here.