registered with her social the application was rejected. >> people are not going to vote. >> reporter: 95-year-old kenneth's ballot was also rejected twice. so no match. in texas only a person who is over 65, disabled or out of the county can vote by mail. but days before the application deadline there are thousands of rejections across the entire state, all political parties, and this isn't the only problem. a tight time line to implement changes means less training in voter education says the harris county election administrator. 14% of mail ballot applications there have been rejected over i.d. issues so far. >> we're still getting e-mails on all these tweaks in the laws. what we're leading to now is a higher than usual rejection of mail ballot applications. >> reporter: but now the actual ballots are also being flagged and returned.