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Our bargain detergent couldn't keep up. turns out it's mostly water. so, we switched back to tide. one wash, stains are gone. [daughter] slurping don't pay for water. pay for clean. it's got to be tide. voters in texas are beginning to feel the impact of the state's new strict voting law with early voting under way for the first primary. 40% of mail-in ballots are being rejected under the new law. joining me from houston, nbc news correspondent, antonia hilton. 40% being rejected. will these voters have the ability to cast the ballot again? >> reporter: that's the question right now, and the...

Ballot application was denied twice. in 1940s harris county, he didn't use either number to register so no match. in texas, only a person 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. 14% of mail-in ballots have been rejected over i.d. issues so far. >> we're still getting emails on all these tweaks in the laws. what we are seeing is a higher than usu...

Helping others make a plan to vote, a controversial new election law landed 74-year-old pam gaskin in unfamiliar territory. her mail ballot application was denied not once, but twice. >> i am pam gaskin. you know? supervoter. how could this happen? >> reporter: first, the county had yet to update applications under the new law, which now requires voters to add their text driver's license or partial social security number to the application, which is what gaskin did in her second attempt but there is a catch. >> the law says it has to be the number that was on your i -- on your application when...

Vote, a controversial new election law landed 74-year-old pam gascon in unfamiliar territory. her mailed ballot application was denied, not once, but twice. >> i am pam gascon. super voter. how could this happen? >> reporter: first, they had yet to update applications under the new law, which requires voters to add their texas driver's license or partial social security number to the application. which is what gascon did in her second attempt. but there is a catch. >> the law says it has to be the number that was on your application when you registered to vote. >> reporter: when did you regist...

Redistricting mail-in ballot application. david, do you think this gamut is going to work? how can there be political consequences if the party at fault restricts voters further? >> yes, michigan has this archaic constitutional provision which allows only a single digit percentage of voters to petition the legislature to take up a matter. historically the legislature would not necessarily bring it up, but in this case the petition is actually what the michigan republican legislature passed and the democratic governor vetoed. now they're trying to do it through petition and it will never reach ...