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HOUSTON — With less than two days until Texas’ primary election, Cedric and Myrtis Tatterson sat in a community center gym in Houston to fulfill the training required of them as election judges. 

For Houston-area retiree Pam Gaskin, voting is a ritual that starts every January when she completes her application for an absentee mail ballot. This year, the 74-year-old printed the application on January 3, filled it out and mailed it to her local election office. Days later, a rejection letter arrived: The forms she had pulled from the county's website no longer complied with Texas law.

Officials in Texas are rejecting thousands of mail-in ballots ahead of the first 2022 midterm primary votes next month, raising serious alarm that a new law is going to disenfranchise droves of eligible voters. This story was previously published by The Guardian.

This story was originally published by Florida Phoenix on Florida new election law SB90.

The League of Women Voters of Texas threatens to sue the Secretary of State for lack of voter registration cards. 

This story was part of the "Women Rule" newsletter, where LWV CEO Virginia Kase Solomón was quoted. Originally published by Politico.

Texas elections officials blame the supply chain for the shortage of voter registration forms.

Over 200 activists were arrested outside of the White House advocating for President Biden to act on voting rights. 

League of Women Voters CEO, Virginia Kase Solomón speaks about how election administrators are being targeted across the country.

Virginia Kase Solomón, CEO of the League of Women Voters, talks about why voting rights advocates are putting pressure on President Biden to help move voting rights legislation through Congress.