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State error in Texas creates huge backlog in voter registration applications as midterm voting nears
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... County election offices throughout Texas are scrambling to process a massive backlog of voter registration applications stemming from an error at the state level, a headache that is hitting just as they are preparing for voting to begin in the midterm elections.
The problem, which officials in the Republican-controlled state have not publicly defined, also could have disenfranchised people who wanted to vote in the state's March primary but whose registration applications were never processed, local election officials said during a news conference Wednesday.
"This is really out of left field. Knowing that this one element of (state) applications didn't come through, and we had no insight on it," said Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Election Officials.
The size of the backlog statewide hasn't been determined, but the association said it is in the tens of thousands for some of the state's most populous counties. In Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, the election office received about 45,000 backlogged voter registration applications.
Some election offices will need to hire temporary workers to handle the crush, officials with the association said.
The issue started last October in the Texas Department of Public Safety, which among other things allows people to register to vote or update their voter registrations when they renew their driver's license.
An unspecified error failed to send a large number of records to applicants' home counties, where the applications are processed and verified. Those records could be a new voter registration application or an update to an existing registration, such as a change of address.
The association of local election officials said its members did not receive any communication from the Department of Public Safety about why the backlog occurred or why they were not informed of the issue for nearly a year. ...
"It's worse than you think."
Sadly it's probably going to be worse than anyone thinks.
There will come a point, probably in the next 2years, when humans will not be able to out think AI. No one can really understand what that means. No one on earth.
Like trying to figure out what happens once you pass the event horizon of a black hole. Nothing bad happens at first. You don't even feel it. Until it's too late.
That's why the next 2 years are critical. For the world.
There is no turning back and it's critical how our leaders deal with it. And look who our Dear Leader is.
I want to be an optimist and be excited about how AI will help us. And it might. But I can't keep thinking of how much peril we are in as humans and how badly we have reacted to these kinds of things in the past. As a species.