Secretary of State of Texas

Texas law requires eligible citizens to register 30 days before Election Day, meaning that October 5th is the last day to register for the November 3rd midterm election.

Residents can check their registration status on the Texas Secretary of State website.

Voters can also update their voter registration on the same website.

To update your registration, you'll need a driver's license or ID card, Social Security number, and voter registration card number.

It has produced inaccuracies, flagging U.S. citizens in some instances.

For example, last October, the Texas Secretary of State's office said that it had identified 2,724 potential non-citizens who are registered to vote in Texas.

after running the entire Texas voter list with more than 18 million voters through the Save database.

But county officials soon began finding that many of the names of people that the system flagged were, in fact, citizens.

Nearly a year later, Texas Secretary of State's office said that it had further reviewed the data and found that at least 578 of those who were initially flagged, roughly 20%, were citizens.

The Secretary of State's office referred 117 names to the State Attorney General for further investigation of potential cases of non-citizen voting.

In Missouri, 70 county clerks signed a letter in December 2025 that was sent to state House and Senate leadership that described the system as flawed, saying it regularly included individuals we know to be U.S. citizens, our neighbors, colleagues, and even voters we have personally registered at naturalization ceremonies.

That's produced a mad scramble by county elections officials to clear a backlog of voter registrations to make sure people are on the voter rolls before the first day of in-person early voting on October 19th.

Betancourt said there was clearly a communication problem between DPS and the Texas Secretary of State's office that oversees elections.

The state should have done better on this, he said.

While he's confident everyone who registered will ultimately be able to vote, the doubts it creates around the voter rolls are something that can't happen if Texas wants everyone to feel assured their vote is counted, Betancourt said.

The deadline to register to vote in time for the November midterm election is October 5th.

Texas residents can check their voter registration status online via the Texas Secretary of State website.

To check your registration status, you must provide your first and last name, as well as either your county and zip code, Texas driver's license number, or your voter ID number.

Last week, nonpartisan news organization VoteBeat reported that the Texas Department of Public Safety failed to send an unknown number of voter registration applications to county voter registrar offices.