http://bit.ly/cgMJrM
The emergency ballots could not be run through the county's optical scanners, like the regular ballots were, and had to be counted by hand.
TX: One incumbent JP ousted, machine malfunctions force hand count in second JP race in Gonzales County primaries.
http://bit.ly/bk8aO8 "The machines fouled up and weren't reading the ballots. So they were hand counted," said county clerk Lee Riedel.
TX: Hidalgo County verifies votes manually after human error causes confusion.
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/human-36085-causes-manually.html
EDINBURG -- Hidalgo County Elections Department employees on Wednesday manually verified the total ballots cast in Tuesday's primary elections after a misstep in the vote-tallying procedure sparked late-night confusion in countywide races.
TX: Defeated candidates question vote counting errors.
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/question-36047-candidates-vote.html
"First they told us we won by a 1,000 votes, then they told us we lost," said Cain Casares, her ex-husband and close friend. "How can anyone have faith in a system like that?"
She has since called for outside review of the vote totals by filing a formal complaint with state authorities
TX: Twice as many voters as expected snarled Collin County polls.
http://bit.ly/blilry
"Surely, they can handle that many votes," said John Muns, who lost to incumbent Keith Self in the county judge race. "I thought the electronic voting machines were supposed to be more efficient."
At some polls, voters waited more than an hour to cast ballots, he said. And some polls still had voters standing in line at 7 p.m. when polls were to close. They were allowed to vote. (This county uses Diebold touchscreens)
TX: Graford precinct receives ballots made for Gordon.
Voting machine error not caught before Tuesday.
http://mineralwellsindex.com/local/x1004930298/Graford-precinct-receives-ballots-made-for-Gordon
MINERAL WELLS. Election judges around the county had varying experiences. Judges for Precincts 4, 21 and 29 had a small glitch with one machine, but said the county clerk's office came and fixed it quickly, according to one judge.
"For some reason it wasn't caught until they started voting (Tuesday) morning," she said of the Precinct 7 snafu. "We gave them paper ballots and nobody was denied a vote, there's no big story in this, it happens, mistakes are made."
TX: Hidalgo County Election Results Finally 'Final'.
http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Hidalgo-County-Election-Results-Finally-Final/y122EILeMk6FRhrUWC8DEw.cspx
As CHANNEL 5 NEWS first reported, a computer glitch at the election's office created concern and delays election night. County spokesperson Cari Lambrecht blamed a software malfunction that caused early votes to be counted twice. After they discovered the glitch, workers started re-counting the votes from every precinct. Lambrecht wants to reassure voters and candidates the final numbers are accurate.
TX: South Texas county's results delayed by glitches.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9E7BUSG2.html
Hidalgo County elections staff on Wednesday set about reconciling a rocky election night vote count while standing behind their late-arriving election totals.
Early Tuesday evening, a formatting glitch led county elections officials to opt for a manual count of Republican primary races, said Yvonne Ramon, county elections director. That labor intensive change delayed results by several hours.
Separately, a mistake in the counting of Democratic primary ballots compounded the delay and led to the initial release of inaccurate voting results, forcing some candidates to concede twice.
In that incident, election workers uploading the memory cards from precinct machines forgot to first clear the system of earlier voting totals. The result was a double count of the first 10 precincts to report their votes.
TX: Collin County election results delayed amid heavy voter turnout.
http://bit.ly/bwmzhZ
"A lot of locations probably could have used more [voting] machines," Seals said.
TX: UPDATE: Last-minute change leaves voters in lurch.
Usual polling place at Richland College moved to nearby Richland Elementary
http://bit.ly/cOsN43
Toya Owens, who works in the communications and marketing department, said they received many calls from voters who came to Richland College just to find they were in the wrong place.
A Richland employee speaking on the condition of anonymity said voting machines had been delivered to campus previously, but were removed yesterday.
TX: A Late Start For Voting (LTE).
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=114d1fb27e863a00
The polling location for precincts 146 and 148 located at Calvary Baptist Church, 517 18th Ave. N., in Texas City, wasn't ready to accommodate voters until 7:22 a.m. Tuesday.
As paper ballots are no longer available, voters were forced to wait until those manning the polls figured out how to operate the electronic hardware. Volunteers assigned to one of the two registration tables were uninformed as what to do as well.
TX: Starr Co. mail-in ballots impounded.
http://www.themonitor.com/news/rio-36024-ballots-starr.html
RIO GRANDE CITY -- Authorities have impounded several mail-in ballots on suspicion they may have been tampered with...
Silva said a post office clerk reported an individual trying to drop off dozens of mail-in ballots at once.
TX: Precinct problems: Some Democratic polls relocated in Houston area (Harris County, precincts 347 and 709).
http://www.kvue.com/news/state/Precinct-problems-Some-Democratic-polls-relocated-in-Houston-area-86018817.html
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