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Commissioners press election staff over duplicate and erroneous voter records; clerks to pull audit histories
Summary
After the joint primary produced reports of duplicate registrations, deceased voters on lists and ballot-machine calibration issues, commissioners asked election staff to compile a list of suspect records and pull audit histories to show who changed registrations; clerks reported vendor-calibration problems with thermal ballot stock.
Del Rio — Val Verde County Commissioners Court spent substantial time on problems observed during the most recent joint primary election, instructing election staff to compile flagged voter names and review audit trails showing who last changed those records.
Why it matters: County officials said voters complained about duplicates, incorrect precinct assignments and deceased people appearing on registration lists; clerks reported they had found roughly two dozen duplicates on election day and an additional 56 duplicates when reviewing the voter roll provided by the county’s VR (voter-registration) system.…
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