Tarrant County is paying for new software to clean up its voter rolls, which could help elections staff stay ahead of thousands of voter registration challenges, according to the county elections administrator.
In Texas and other states, people can challenge other residents’ voter registrations. The Houston-based nonprofit True the Vote has driven mass challenges across the country. The organization created an app called IV3 that makes it easy to compare public records and make thousands of challenges at a time, with the goal of preventing what True the Vote calls “election manipulation.”
At a meeting Tuesday, Tarrant County commissioners approved $46,000 for a year’s access to skip-tracing software, often used by debt collectors…