Texas Scorecard By Erin Anderson March 13, 2020
And how are Democrat officials going to avoid the same mistakes in November?How did the top election official in one of Texas’ biggest counties miss counting thousands of Super Tuesday ballots?
Wednesday’s recount of paper ballot backups linked to votes that went “missing†in the March 3 primary elections found 9,149 ballots that were not included in the county’s original vote tallies—6,818 Democrat and 2,331 Republican.
Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole said the additional ballots didn’t change the outcomes of any primary races.
But the mistake is causing residents to question Pippins-Poole’s competence and to lose confidence that their votes will count.
Pippins-Poole didn’t discover the missing ballots until late last week, after her office had already finished counting votes and posted results.
Correcting the mistake required approval from a state court to conduct the partial recount. Otherwise, nearly 3 percent of county voters’ primary ballots would not have been counted.
The missing ballots were linked to thumb drives from 44 “scanner and tabulator†machines used at multiple vote centers across the county.
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/local/how-did-dallas-county-misplace-9100-ballots/
