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| 10,000 uncounted ballots found in Texas county |
| 2022-03-08 |
Whoops! But better in a primary than the real thing in November. [Examiner] Election officials discovered 10,000 uncounted mail-in ballots over the weekend in Texas's most populous county after the first-in-the-nation 2022 primary last week.Two close Democratic primary races, one for a state House seat and another for Texas attorney general, hang in the balance. The ballots, 6,000 for Democrats and 4,000 for Republicans, were scanned into the tabulation computer, but they were not added to the unofficial final results, Harris County officials announced Sunday. "While we understand the seriousness of this error, the ability to identify and correct this issue is a result of a lengthy and rigorous process and is a positive example of the process ultimately working as it should," the county, which includes most of Houston, said in a statement obtained by the Texas Tribune. Candis Houston, who is trailing incumbent state Rep. Harold Dutton Jr. by 136 votes in the Democratic primary, has already conceded the race. Dutton was baffled that so many ballots had gone missing without anyone noticing. "It seems to me that somebody should’ve known that 10,000 ballots were missing," Dutton said. "If 10,000 ballots were missing and nobody knew that, God help us." Joe Jaworski, former mayor of Galveston, Texas, leads civil rights attorney Lee Merritt by 1,418 votes in the race to become the Democratic nominee for attorney general. Although Jaworski claimed victory Friday, Merritt has not conceded, and it remains unclear who will receive the second spot in a runoff planned for May. Incumbent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will also face a runoff election after failing to secure at least 50% of the vote in the Lone Star State’s Republican primary. Among the other complications reported for the March 1 primary in Harris County were delays caused by 1,600 damaged ballot sheets, two voting locations reporting minor technical difficulties with their machines, and a shortage of election workers. In addition, as a consequence of stricter new voting rules, thousands of mail-in ballots lacking proper identification were sent back, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported. How many of those went to real people at real addresses? |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #10 Practice makes perfect. Gearing up for midterms. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-03-08 14:30 |
| #9 Since most of the ballots are Donk, it looks more like incompetence than malfeasance.... unless, of course, the Donk ballots were for the wrong jackass.... |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-03-08 12:49 |
| #8 they found 69 million in ukraine at some gas company! |
| Posted by: Greng Black3494 2022-03-08 10:30 |
| #7 "Pay no attention to that little man behind the "Look - over there: UKRAINE!" |
| Posted by: No Fortunate Son 2022-03-08 10:22 |
| #6 Harris County has had problems for years in election security also they have other problems |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-03-08 10:17 |
| #5 Prison time for people that break the chain of custody for ballots and this sort of thing will stop happening. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-03-08 10:16 |
| #4 And 9,264 are for the demoncrats |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-03-08 09:16 |
| #3 According to the Dems, the most honest election in the history of the universe. Sure is a lot of opposition to looking at the evidence or changing the outcome of 2020 election. A whole lot of cheating occurred. Straighten out the 2020 election or the 2022 and 2024 elections (and future elections) won't mean zip. Dems can't win on policy, so they cheat. Hell, our elections are no better than Russian elections or any of the banana republics. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2022-03-08 09:12 |
| #2 10,000.00 ballots. what are the odds? |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2022-03-08 09:03 |
| #1 ...and addresses above ground? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-03-08 08:53 |