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AUSTIN, Texas — County election administrators and their state counterparts are celebrating how they reduced last winter’s towering rejection rate for mail ballots by 78% in last month’s midterm election.

Mail ballot rejections spiked in the Texas state primaries in March. In the general election, the percentage of mail ballots that have so far been flagged for rejection has dropped.

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Despite some strong performances, this production is undone by flip-flopping between the serious and the silly

“When I first started going to the gym I definitely felt inferior and intimidated"

Several motorists were pulled over with flat tyres on Tuesday evening.

The property is set on a mammoth 2,828 square metre block.

The venture aims to deliver fresh produce from local community gardens to homes for seniors — saving them the trip.

The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 11. The last day to apply to vote by mail is Oct. 28. Early voting runs from Oct. 24 to Nov. 4.

State elections officials were asleep at the wheel after the Texas Legislature passed a raft of new voting rules last year. Soon after his appointment last fall, Secretary of State John B. Scott should have launched an aggressive education campaign to explain those new rules to voters and local elections…

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