“This is literally the exact thing that I and many other civil rights groups warned about.”

James Slattery, senior staff attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, regarding the new ID requirements for vote-by-mail ballot applications in Texas that went into effect last month which have caused about 50 percent of those applications to be rejected in several counties. Senate Bill 1 requires that voters must now include either a partial Social Security number or a driver’s license number on their application for mail-in ballots and the number must match their voter registration. But many people don’t remember what form of ID is tied to their voter registration. (NPR — Jan. 20, 2022)