By Patrick Svitek, Austin BureauDecember 24, 2014
A decades-old part of Texas’ election code is receiving new attention as Democrats look to chart a path forward and maintain their ranks of volunteers qualified to register voters.
Perhaps no organization is expected to feel the effect more than Battleground Texas, whose thousands of volunteer registrars will lose their certification Dec. 31 and will have to go through training before they can earn it back in the new year.
“This is wildly burdensome,” said Mimi Marziani, voter protection director at Battleground Texas. “The only logical explanation is that all of those things are aimed at the same goal, which is making it much harder to vote.”