Bexar County’s Elections Administrator Michele Carew says a large backlog of new voter registration applications has officially been taken care of in time for the Nov. 4 election .

The voter registration deadline for this November’s election was Monday, Oct. 6.

Carew said Wednesday that all applications received before then have been processed, thanks to numerous temporary employees brought on to help staff 14-hour work days.

Bexar County was thrust into a chaotic transition process when its longtime voter registration vendor, Votec, went under this summer — at the same time the state’s system was undergoing a massive update .

That left Carew’s office to process about 72,000 backlogged applications between Oct. 1, when the county went live on the state’s registration system, a

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