More errors plague Texas voter registration software, weeks before midterm election – Dallas News

More errors plague Texas voter registration software, weeks before midterm election  Dallas News

A software bug that led to at least 590,000 voter registrations not being sent to county officials for processing is far from the only error to strike Texas voter registration systems this past year. Election officials across Texas say they have struggled with unreliable software since Louisiana-based technology and consulting firm Civix rolled out a system overhaul in July 2025. Despite repeated assurances from the state that fixes are coming, county officials and residents alike have continued to encounter confusion and inaccuracies using the Texas Election Administration Management, or TEAM, system. A Dallas Morning News analysis of county and state records shows likely data consistency problems were present even after the Texas Secretary of State’s office acknowledged an error with the state voter lookup tool, then said it was fixed on Sept.

15. Local authorities worry that TEAM’s issues may impose an additional administrative burden on counties, just weeks before early voting starts Oct. 19. Texas midterm election: Oct. 5 is the last day to register “It has become evident that these problems are the result of fundamental system architecture failures by the state's voter registration database vendor,” the Texas Association of County Election Officials wrote in a Sept. 28 news release. Secretary of State spokesperson Alicia Pierce did not address the Association of County Election Officials’ criticism in an