bill that are downright confusing. i want to bring in someone who knows firsthand what s happening on the ground. her county includes austin, texas. the travis county clerk is joining us now to discuss what is going on in her county as well as other counties. dana, thank you so much for being with us. can you tell us how many applicants you have rejected so far ahead of the march primary? we started out with a 50% rejection rate. and that was very disturbing. that s much, much higher than we should have. and we tried to go back and see if we could clarify that. it may be much lower. it may in reality turn out to be more like a 27% rejection rate. even that is way too high. so i started contacting the secretary of state s office to tell them that their new vote by mail tracker system was not working. their response back to me was, well, all you have to do is call us.
rejection rate. and that was very disturbing. that s much, much higher than we should have. and we tried to go back and see if we could clarify that. it may be much lower. it may in reality turn out to be more like a 27% rejection rate. even that is way too high. so i started contacting the secretary of state s office to tell them that their new vote by mail tracker system was not working. their response back to me was, well, all you have to do is call us. the tracker system is blank. there s no data in it. and when you try to call the secretary of state s office you have to try 30 or 40 times to get through and oftentimes it s a complete failure. there s no help here. i do want to ask you about that, but first, i just want to explain to people who are not applying in texas for a mail-in ballot, if you are going to, this application, it asks for a driver s license or a texas basically state i.d. number. then it says if you don t have that, the last four digits of