The backlog comes after the company that ran the county’s voter registration system abruptly shut down and the state overhauled its own voter registration system.
Thousands of Fort Bend County voter registrations – including new applications, cancellations and changes – are still pending.
The backlog comes after the company that ran the county’s voter registration system abruptly shut down and the state overhauled its own voter registration system.
Fort Bend County Elections Administrator John Oldham said VOTEC – the company that produced the software for the county voter registration system – closed down in August. The county was without a voter registration system for about a month, before negotiating a deal to continue using VOTEC’s software for another year. VOTEC founder and Chairman John Medcalf was not immediately available for comment…