How to vote in the US midterm : The early voting will kick start in Texas beginning Monday and Houston-area voters will have to check their registration and take prompt action if something goes wrong. Early voting starts Monday and ends Oct. 30. Just days ahead of the election, Texas election officials have identified a new backlog of 15,000 unprocessed voter registration records and it has raised fresh concerns with a new software error affecting around thousands of registration records just days before voting begins. The development comes news of more than 500,000 delayed registrations that hit county elections offices last month. The secretary of state’s office said in an email to county election officials on Thursday that some of them would receive new batches of registrations to process, though many of them would not.
The Texas Association of County Elected Officials later said it was aware of 3,000 new registrations sent to Bexar County, 2,400 to Harris, 1,100 to Travis, 700 to Williamson and 400 to Hays, according to Express News. Voters who are unsure whether their registration details have been processed can check their status online or contact their county voter registrar before heading to a polling place.
