Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Some Texas Voting Machines Can’t Read Mail-In Ballots, 22K Affected So Far

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/10/27/scanning-machine-issues-22k-tarrant-county-mail-in-ballots-rejected/ 

 

Ballot board members are now working in 12-hour shifts to accurately replicate the ballots so they can be counted.

County elections administrator Heider Garcia told county commissioners in a meeting Tuesday the problem is with a bar code printed on the ballots, that is not 100-percent legible. Garcia said the problem was discovered Sunday as the ballot board started opening envelopes and putting completed ballots into scanners.

Tarrant County moved away from in-house ballot printing this year, contracting with Runbeck Election Services in Phoenix, Arizona. The move was due to the anticipated increase in mail-in ballot requests.

 

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