# Texas sues over 500k unprocessed voter registrations

> Texas faces lawsuit after 500,000+ voter registrations failed to process through DPS portal.
- Title: Texas sues over 500k unprocessed voter registrations
- Summary: Texas faces lawsuit after 500,000+ voter registrations failed to process through DPS portal. Texas must fix voter registration system by Nov. 3 after failing…
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- Source: Texastribune — https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17497096/texas-voter-registration-lawsuit-applications-failure
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## What happened?
Voting rights groups sued Texas after 500,000+ voter registration applications submitted through DPS web portal never processed.

> Voting rights groups are suing the state of Texas after more than 500,000 voter registration applications were submitted through the Texas Department of Public Safety’s web portal but never processed
## What’s the dispute?
Texas failed to maintain online voter registration system since 2016, breaching 2021 settlement agreement.

> In 2016, Texas voters and voting rights groups sued the state over its lack of online voter registration
## 2021 settlement
State agreed to permanently maintain online voter registration process through DPS portal.

> In 2021, the state settled the lawsuit, agreeing to permanently maintain the process
## Current backlog
DPS and secretary of state’s office sent county officials 500,000+ delayed voter records from October 2025.

> DPS and the secretary of state’s office last month sent county election officials a backlog of hundreds of thousands of voter registration records and updates delayed by a software update error with the DPS web portal
## Plaintiffs
League of Women Voters of Texas and MOVE Texas Civic Fund filed lawsuit representing 2021 settlement plaintiffs.

> The suit was filed by the League of Women Voters of Texas and MOVE Texas Civic Fund, a nonprofit organization focused on engaging young Texans and underrepresented communities
## What they want
Plaintiffs demand DPS and secretary of state fix system, produce records, and show compliance within one month.

> The lawsuit, filed last week in Bexar County’s 224th District Court, is asking a judge to order both DPS and the Texas Secretary of State’s Office to maintain a functioning registration process, produce records documenting registration failures, and show proof of their compliance to the court within a month
## What happens next
DPS and secretary of state will respond to lawsuit as judge decides if registration failures breach 2021 settlement.

> DPS and the secretary of state’s office are expected to file their responses to the plaintiff’s allegations. A judge will decide whether the registration failures constitute a breach of the state’s 2021 settlement agreement to maintain a reliable voter registration system through DPS’s web portal
## Key takeaway

Texas must fix voter registration system by Nov. 3 after failing to process 500,000+ applications through DPS portal.