Tarrant County elections officials re-scanning thousands of ballots after machine error
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The Tarrant County elections administrator said the vast majority of the ballots will be copied and counted in time for results to be released on Election Night.
This is a developing story and will be regularly updated.
Electronic scanners rejected about one-third of mailed ballots in Tarrant County — an issue that will need to be corrected so the ballots can be counted, the elections administrator told county commissioners Tuesday.
Elections officials are now working to fix the problem and get the ballots counted, said Heider Garcia, the Tarrant County elections administrator.
The ballot board will create copies, as the law requires, and then scan those copies properly to make sure the ballots are counted.
Garcia said the vast majority of the ballots will be copied and counted in time for results to be released as scheduled on Election Night.
"We started noticing about a third of them were being rejected by the scanners when they’re imaged," Garcia told county commissioners.
The problem appears to be with the scanners not reading every ballot barcode.
"What we believe at this point, is that the print shop that did these ballots for us, basically, can improve the quality of the printing," he said.
Around 10% of Tarrant County voters who have cast their ballots so far did so by mail, according to records from the Texas Secretary of State.
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