AUSTIN — In Texas as of Monday, 15,698,626 people are registered to vote in this year’s midterm elections — a new record, according to the secretary of state’s office.

But many people who sent in their applications to register aren't seeing it reflected in the state's "Am I Registered?" database.

The state says not to worry — as long as you complete, sign and postmark your application by Tuesday, you will be registered to vote, said Sam Taylor, communications director for the secretary of state. You should receive your voter registration certificate in the mail within 30 days.

Every election season as the deadline nears, county voter registrars are slammed with last-minute registration forms. Texas is one of 12 states that doesn’t allow online registration, so county elections staff must manually enter applications online.

The process can take a week or longer after the application is received.

Denton County elections administrator Frank Phillips said he hired 10 temporary staff members to help with the overload.

“It’s very labor intensive,” he said. “It only takes about three to five minutes to enter in each application, but we’ve had thousands come in recently that we still need to do.”

Phillips said his staff could still be entering in applications through early voting, which begins Oct. 22. If residents try to vote early and don’t appear to be registered, he said they can still vote and officials will call the Denton County elections office to verify their status.

Bruce Sherbet, elections administrator for Collin County, said he hired 20 temporary employees last month.

“There’s no way we could do it with just our normal staff,” he said. “The last two weeks have been crazy, and things have been coming in heavy and fast.”

Taylor says the secretary of state’s office, the top elections administrator, expects the statewide total of registered voters to surpass 15.7 million.

As of Monday, there were 1.3 million registered voters in Dallas County, 574,620 in Collin, 495,201 in Denton, 62,684 in Rockwall and 1.1 million in Tarrant.

The 15.6 million Texans who were registered as of Monday is a significant increase over the 15.2 million who were registered for March's primary elections, when record numbers of Democrats and Republicans turned out to vote.

For people registering last minute, Taylor has these recommendations:

Hand-deliver your application to your county voter registrar.

If you are unable to hand-deliver your application, you can fax it to the registrar by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday. After you fax it, the registrar must receive a hard copy of your application within four business days.

If you need to update your address or name within the same county, you can do so online.

Addresses and contact info for DFW county voter registrars

Dallas County:

Elections Administrator: Toni Pippins-Poole

2377 North Stemmons Frwy, Suite 820

Dallas, TX 75207

Phone: 214-819-6300

Fax: 214-819-6301

Collin County:

Elections Administrator: Bruce Sherbet

2010 Redbud Blvd., Suite 102

McKinney, TX 75069

Phone: 972-547-1990

Fax: 972-547-1995

Denton County:

Elections Administrator: Frank Phillips

701 Kimberly Drive

Denton, TX 76208

Phone: 940-349-3200

Fax: 940-349-3201

Rockwall County:

Elections Administrator: Christopher Lynch

915 Whitmore Drive, Suite D

Rockwall, TX 75087

Phone: 972-204-6200

Fax: 972-204-6209

Tarrant County:

Elections Administrator: Heider Garcia

2700 Premier St.

Fort Worth, TX 76161

Phone: 817-831-8683

Fax: 817-831-6475

Residents of other counties can found their voter registrar info here.