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Elections office says hand-count audit of SD 9 matched machine totals; staff to provide reconciliation details
Summary
Tarrant County elections staff told commissioners a county-conducted hand-count audit of the SD 9 runoff found a 100% match with machine tallies; staff said mail-ballot rejection rates were within historical norms and agreed to certify reconciliation reports and provide detailed breakdowns.
The Tarrant County Elections Administrator told the Commissioners Court on March 10 that a hand-count audit of the SD 9 runoff validated the electronic tally, and that a higher apparent rate of mail-ballot "rejections" reported publicly was a misunderstanding of reconciliation reports.
Elections staff described how the ballot board — an independent, party-appointed body that conducts statutory hand-count audits — performed the SD 9 audit. The administrator said the county expanded the usual sampling for that audit and asked the secretary of state to allow a complete hand check because the race provided an opportunity to investigate image anomalies reported during the counting process. "It was a 100% match," the official reported when…
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