In February, Bexar County approved the contract for a new voter registration system after grappling for months with Texas’ lagging and glitchy system. However, one more roadblock remains before the county can free itself of the old system: the State of Texas itself.
In an April 28 letter to Bexar County officials obtained by the Current, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson states that, even though the county has approved a contract with new vendor VR Systems, her office doesn’t plan to follow the county’s implementation timeline.
That delay threatens to get in the way of Bexar County going online with the new system in time for November’s consequential midterm elections, according to Precinct 4 County Commissioner Tommy Calvert…