Hays County commissioners voted unanimously to declare and approve the results of the Nov. 4, 2025, general election after hearing an emailed public comment urging the county to publish polling-location wait times.

The emailed comment, submitted by Laura Nunn of San Marcos, said: “Publishing wait times for all locations on election days is not an option, it's a necessity.” The comment criticized the election board’s decision not to publish wait times on Election Day and urged the election board chair to “make sure that the voters are your first consideration” for the December runoff.

Jennifer Dornoff, Hays County elections administrator, told the commissioners the county intended to publish wait times in future elections but that the link for published wait times was not available this time because the county was in the middle of a conversion to the state's voter registration system. “The only reason they weren't posted this time around was because we've been going through a conversion with the state's ... registration system,” Dornoff said. She said the county plans to have wait-time posting in place for the next election.

Dornoff provided county election statistics for Nov. 4: a 19.5% turnout for the constitutional amendment election and a total of 37,082 ballots cast. She listed 562 regular mail ballots, 2 confidential ballots (type not specified), 12 FPCA (overseas/military) ballots, and 164 provisional ballots — 24 of which she said were eligible to be counted.

The commissioners discussed early-voting access for three runoffs the county will administer: San Marcos (at-large), Kyle (two at-large seats) and Buda (one single-member district). Dornoff said runoffs historically have lower early-voting turnout and that jurisdiction over adding early-voting sites for runoffs involves the cities; she said the county typically provides the elections office as the main early-voting location. On requests to open an East Side Broadway early-voting site for the runoff, Dornoff estimated the extra cost at about $6,000 to $7,000 and noted a prior San Marcos runoff had around 867 voters.

A commissioner moved to “declare the results of the local canvass and approve the county election returns for the November [4] election as presented by the Hays County Elections Administrator.” The motion was seconded and carried on a roll-call vote; staff later confirmed that all commissioners present voted yes.

Dornoff said the county will conduct the public portion of logic-and-accuracy (L&A) testing next week and that mail ballots for the runoffs will be mailed out the following week.

The commissioners completed the canvass and closed the item with no further business.