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Resident urges Collin County to adopt hand-marked paper ballots, remove ballot-marking devices
Summary
A resident told the Commissioners Court that ballot-marking devices (BMDs) pose security and human-factor risks and requested the county implement hand-marked paper ballots for the 2025 election cycle.
At the end of the Commissioners Court meeting, resident Chuck Reynolds used public comment time to ask the court to adopt a plan to implement hand-marked paper ballots and reject ballot-marking devices (BMDs) for the 2025 election.
Reynolds cited security concerns and a 2019 Michigan study he said showed voters caught injected errors at a low rate. “What they found is that the voters only caught 7% of the injected errors,” Reynolds said, and later added that with interventions the best detection rate in his account was about 19 percent. He concluded that “80 Percent of your voters are not gonna catch an injected error.”
Reynolds requested the court “outline a plan, and then implement and mark paper ballots for the November” election and remove BMDs from the county’s voting process for 2025.
The comment was given during the meeting’s public-comment period; the transcript does not record a response from the court or staff during the same hearing.
