Opinion: A new national study puts Texas near the bottom of the nation in a measure of 10 categories related to elections and voting.
Texas ranked 46 of 50 for voting access in the 2022 edition of the Cost of Voting Index. The deadline to register to vote for the upcoming election is Oct. 11.
“The year 2021 was particularly noteworthy, with 19 states passing at least 33 new laws that made voting more difficult, while 25 states passed 62 laws, which reduced the cost of voting,” the survey’s authors note in their introduction. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.
The national study measures 10 different election-related categories, including ease of registration, voting inconvenience and poll hours, voting by mail, absentee voting, length of early voting periods and number of voting sites.
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