Big Backlog for Balloters: Check your voter registration status today

THE WOODLANDS, TX – According to multiple news sources, a state-level glitch of as-yet undetermined reasons has resulted in a massive backlog in voter registration applications for the area. Montgomery County alone has nearly 35,000 records to process between now and the onset of early voting on October 19.

According to the , there are applications reaching as far back as October of last year that are just now reaching their county voter registrars, who process and verify the submissions for their respective county residents. These backlogged applications include new voter registrations as well as changes to existing registrations like address updates.

“Over the past 24 hours, Texas county voter registrars across the state have received a flood of new voter registrations and updates to voter registration records submitted through the Texas Department of Public Safety. Some of these submissions date as far back as October 2025, but were not sent to Texas county voter registrars until this week. Depending on their size, counties have received anywhere from several hundred to tens of thousands of records to process as a result of a technological error at the state level that caused this major backlog. Texas voters should be confident that Texas county election officials are working around the clock to ensure valid voter registrations submitted in a timely manner before the deadline will be processed appropriately, despite the challenges and additional time that this backlog has created,” said officials in a statement from the Texas Association of County Election Officials, a nonpartisan association representing county election officials across Texas’ 254 counties.

Fortunately, election law states that any voter submitting their registration by the cutoff date for this midterm election season on October 5 will still be able to cast a provisional ballot if they show up to vote and don’t appear on the rolls.

Woodlands Online accordingly encourages all Montgomery County and Harris County residents to check on the status of their voter registration at www.votetexas.org. Montgomery County-specific questions can be answered at www.elections.mctx.org, bearing in mind that once 5:00 p.m. hits on Monday, October 5, only ten days from this writing, you’ll have to wait for the next election cycle after this November to be able to vote.