ballot return envelope. there is so much confusion, she has doubled staffing at phone banks. we got 8,000 calls in january alone. 5,000 of which were about mailed ballot voting. reporter: texas is one of 19 states that passed restrictive voting legislation in 2021. but before governor greg abbott signed senate bill 1 into law late last year, activists warned lawmakers about potential snares like i.d. match and complicated envelopes. the challenges we re seeing now are a feature of sb-1 of the voting law. reporter: the secretary of state s office telling cnn in a statement, our office has been working as quickly and diligently as possible, with a compress the time frame to provide guidance to election officials and voters. an online ballot tracker now required under the new law says gascon s has been received. 28 days.
voters, including majority of democrats, think when you mail in a ballot there ought to be some of the mail-in ballot id safeguards as you have with in-person voting. what the bill says is that you would write your driver s license number, your state id number, the last four of your social security number, inside of a privacy flap in that return envelope and they didn t like that idea. todd, one of the other things that s very unfortunate is that there was other very key business that was left undone when the democrats walked out. key among them was a crucial bail reform bill. now, this is something governor abbott also wants the legislature to come back for and heres why that s important. under the current bail procedures in places like the city of houston, if you have a violent, dangerous criminal but he has enough money to be able to make bail, they ve got to release him and just last year a law enforcement officer was killed by someone making bail. the democrats are playing with
u.s. oil companies, are raking in near record profits, so why are they still getting huge taxpayer subsidies? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. he skipped the last presidential debate and sidelined himself in iowa saying he wants to focus on the first of the nation s primary state. jon huntsman is betting almost everything on new hampshire, but is trail ng the state while romney is enjoying a substantial lead and now, huntsman is joining some of romney s sharpest critics in questioning romney s conservative credentials. jon huntsman is joining us now from salt lake city. thanks very much for coming in. thank you, wolf. an honor to be with you. george will, the conservative columnist writing in an upcoming edition of the washington post says this about mitt romney. he says you agree with george will on that? those are pretty tough words, wolf. all i can say is this is the time when this nation wants leadership. we ve been looking for leadership for