Legislation proposed by Texas Democrats would enable online voter registration.
Texas House Rep. John Bucy (D–Cedar Park) filed House Bill 150, which would direct the Texas Secretary of State to collaborate with the Department of Public Safety in order to implement the new program.
Bucy has filed the legislation every year since 2019.
State Sen. Carol Alvarado filed a similar bill in the Texas Senate, Senate Bill 230.
Alvarado’s bill also lists State Sens. Molly Cook (D–Houston), Roland Gutierrez (D–San Antonio), Jose Menendez (D-San Antonio), and Taylor Rehmet (D–Garland) as joint authors.
The Department of Public Safety online portal currently allows voter registration for those who already have a Texas driver’s license and are interacting with DPS, such as renewing the license or updating an address.
Opponents argue that electronic voter registration creates potential for security risks and fraud.
“Online voter registration is simply not secure. There are too many vulnerabilities in the system that could allow for ineligible individuals to become registered voters,” Christine Welborn, president of Advancing Integrity, told Texas Scorecard.
“Our own DPS system that just updates registrations online had an error that delayed the processing of thousands of registrations to just before the recent election,” she continued.
At least 500,000 backlogged voter registration records were sent to county election officials weeks before the midterm election according to Votebeat.
The backlog was due to an October 2025 software update by a DPS vendor.
Four days before early voting in Texas began, another error on the state’s website resulted in 15,000 affected records.
The 90th Legislative Session begins January 12, 2027.
