@rangerrebew@Oceander @Freya @Quix I read the entire article. If the writer had read her state election law, she would not have written the article. The main mistake she makes, is, a county registrar
does not make the decision whether a person may be added to the voter list.
Since 2002, the Secretary of State of each state now is responsible for the state master voter list. The voter registrar of every county sends in the names of the perspective voter to the Secretary of State, Elections Division, and the name is checked by state records and a determination is made whether the person is eligible to be a registered voter. Once that is determined, the county registrar is contacted whether or not to add that name to the voter list.
Here is an example of that:
I was a member of the State Republican Women and given charge of registering new voters. Various members worked with me to do this. Of course, we wanted to register Republicans rather than Democrats. How to do this? One thing we did was, the women went to Gun Shows in their area with their voter registration cards and had people who were not registered, to fill out those cards. We figured more Republicans would be at Gun Shows, than Democrats.
The people who filled out the cards could either mail them in, or give them back to the Republican woman and she would deliver them back to the registrar. Were these people automatically registered? No, the names and their information was sent to the Secretary of State, Elections Division, and the names checked.
Another way people think every person who enters a polling place casts a valid vote when they do not:
If there is a problem at a polling place, such as the voter's name is not on that precinct's voter list, but the person insists on voting - the person votes a "Provisional" ballot. This ballot is a paper ballot and it is sealed in an envelope and delivered to the Early Voting Ballot Board which meets the day after voting. If the Board determines the voter was not a registered voter to vote in that precinct, the ballot is determined to be invalid and it is rejected. I was the Judge of the Early Voting Ballot Board for ten years and we rejected every Provisional Ballot during those years.
What uninformed people think they see about people being registered is faulty. What they think they see at a polling place is faulty. This is because they don't know the next step in the process.
I also instructed Republican election judges and clerks around Texas in election law. They then knew the law and followed it at their precincts. Election judges and clerks do not just sign up to be that and they are. Every state instructs those people in the law before they do those duties. They may not know the process after their duties, however.