Registering to vote can be tricky, especially because Texas is one of eleven states that doesn’t have online voter registration. The deadline to register to vote in Texas is Oct. 7, and the deadline to request an absentee ballot is Oct. 25. In this episode, Sofia Vargas Karam walks through some of the difficulties of registering to vote in Texas.
Voting resources:
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/21/texas-voter-guide-2024-election/
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