🚨🚨🚨 Interrupting the wordle tweets to once again raise the alarm about voting rights in Texas 🚨🚨🚨

@TXsecofstate needs to provide guidance on the cure process for VBM application rejections. This process is mandatory & voters whose applications were rejected need it ASAP
Advocates repeatedly warned @TXsecofstate about this exact danger when the #txlege considered SB1, but these concerns were always dismissed.

Legislators were too intent on passing their poorly written anti-voter bill to think about the potential consequences for Texans.
Further, the @TXsecofstate assured the #txlege that this problem - currently impacting HALF of VBM applications in Travis and Bexar counties - would not be an issue:
A process that rejects 50% of vote by mail applications is obviously a major failure.

The deadline to apply to vote by mail is only 5 weeks away. @TXsecofstate must fix this ASAP so that no voter in Texas is disenfranchised by this issue.

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