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Elections administrator reports 15.28% turnout and no discrepancies in post‑election hand count audit
Summary
Elections Administrator Trudy Hancock reported the Nov. special election had 20,874 ballots cast from 136,617 registered voters (15.28% turnout). A post‑election hand count of 6,987 ballots (33% of cast ballots) found no discrepancies.
Trudy Hancock, Brazos County elections administrator, presented the post‑election hand count audit for the Nov. 2025 special election, telling the Commissioners Court that the county had 136,617 registered voters and 20,874 ballots cast for a turnout of 15.28%.
Hancock said the office hand‑counted 6,987 ballots — 33% of ballots cast — across assigned early‑voting and election‑day locations and reported "no discrepancies whatsoever" in that sample. She described the changed statutory process for the post‑election hand count audit, noting locations are assigned rather than precincts and that county staff organize ballots by precinct internally before tallying to verify precinct returns.
Hancock also described the bipartisan staffing of the early‑voting accounting team — two Democrats and two Republicans — and said that practice continued to maintain the integrity of the count. Commissioners acknowledged the report without further questions.
