With two statewide voter registration systems under duress, Bexar County is laying plans to pay a new vendor starting this year.

The decision comes as roughly 45,000 voter registration applications remain in limbo ahead of the Nov. 4 election — angering some voting rights advocates who say the county should have moved sooner to find a new system.

“If we fail to get these folks taken care of prior to the November election, it will be a monumental failure,” Commissioner Tommy Calvert (Pct. 4) said this week.

Texas requires counties to provide the state with an up-to-date voter registration list and launched the TEAM system more than two decades ago to help them manage that task.

Bexar County was among a number of larger counties that continued paying an outside voter registration vendor

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