Texas counties struggle to process voter registrations using state's new TEAM system
Darcy Hood mailed her voter registration application to the Tarrant County elections department in July, after she turned 18.
Months later, her application still hasn’t been processed. And it’s unclear when it will be.
With the Oct. 6 deadline to register to vote in the November constitutional amendment election approaching, tens of thousands of Texans are in the same situation, waiting in suspense for their applications to go through, a process that normally takes a few days or weeks.
In interviews, private conversations, and emails, county elections officials from across the state point the finger at the state’s voter registration system, known as TEAM, which has long had functionality problems. They say that after the software was overhauled in July, the problems began proliferating: Voters’ previous addresses override their new ones, their voting precincts don’t populate correctly, and sometimes the registration information doesn’t save at all.
https://thefulcrum.us/elections/team-voter-registration-system-problems-county-election-officials