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Houston Chronicle by  Zach Despart Oct. 4, 2019

Democrats in Texas see registering new voters as crucial to winning statewide elections in 2020, but the number of registered voters in Harris County, the state’s largest, has declined since last year.

Harris County’s voter roll has shrunk by 4,146 voters since Election Day in November 2018, when Democrats swept every countywide and judicial post.

The deadline to register for next month’s municipal elections is Monday.

Two of the state’s five largest counties this week reported fewer registered voters than 11 months ago. Dallas County lost 19,400, while Bexar County increased by 7,554. Tarrant County gained 1,406 voters and Travis County added 13,454. Texas as a whole added just more than 30,000 voters between November 2018 and September, according to the most recent tally by the secretary of state.

Voter registration officials in Dallas and Bexar counties said voter rolls typically dip after general elections in even-numbered years. They said that period is when counties remove inactive voters, who have not participated in two consecutive federal elections nor responded to a letter from the voter registrar, from the rolls. The number of registered voters usually rebounds as new voters submit applications, they said.

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Re: Despite looming election, Harris County voter roll shrinks since 2018
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2019, 02:39:29 pm »
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Article said: "Voter registration officials in Dallas and Bexar counties said voter rolls typically dip after general elections in even-numbered years. They said that period is when counties remove inactive voters, who have not participated in two consecutive federal elections nor responded to a letter from the voter registrar, from the rolls. The number of registered voters usually rebounds as new voters submit applications, they said."

The above actions are in the Texas Election Law - the way counties remove voters from the voter roll.  But, there is another reason Harris County lost voters.  After Harvey when so many people lost their homes, a number of these people moved from Harris County.

Here north of Dallas, a man who owns a Dickies Barbecue place, had his sister's family and another friend's family come here to his house after their homes were destroyed by Harvey in Harris County.  They had nothing left in Harris County.  The husbands of these two families were looking for work in order not to go back to Harris county and have this happen again.