Rockwall County canvasses Nov. 4 election and certifies results in unanimous vote

The Commissioner’s Court of Rockwall County on Nov. 14 voted unanimously to canvas and certify the Nov. 4 general election returns after the county’s deputy election administrator reported turnout figures.

Christie Myers, the deputy election administrator, told the court that 22,706 people voted in the election and that 9,025 ballots were cast on election day. Myers said that more than 40% of voters cast ballots on election day — an unusually high election-day share for an odd-year contest.

The certification concludes the county’s formal canvass of the Nov. 4 returns. Judge Frank New, identifying himself as the County Judge, moved to canvass the results; a commissioner seconded the motion and the court approved it 5-0.

Myers described location- and process-level details for election operations: two municipal utility districts each accounted for one voter; the annex polling location had consistently short lines during early voting; and the county used an interior line-move at 7 p.m. at close to let voters already in line complete voting. When asked for a precinct-by-location breakdown (by library, annex, Heath, and other sites), Myers said she did not have those numbers at the meeting but offered to present them at a future commissioners’ session.

A commissioner raised questions about recent vendor arrangements and data delivery. Myers said the county had not yet received certain data from the vendor referenced in prior discussions (named in the meeting as Votec) but had been able to operate as an "online county" through the Texas Secretary of State’s TEAM system and complete ballot-board review. She described a small number of cases — voters whose driver-license information differed from the poll book — that required an extra step at the polls but said those instances were "very minor." The court did not order provisional ballots as a result.

The motion to certify was made by Judge Frank New and seconded by Commissioner Gallano; the court recorded the motion as passing 5 to 0. Judge New said he would sign the official canvass certificate stating the court met as the canvassing board and approved the returns "received from the Rockwall County Elections Administrator." The court then recessed into an executive session; upon reconvening, Judge New reported that no action had been taken in executive session.

The certification is a procedural step required to finalize local election results and, in this case, followed the elections office’s reporting and ballot-board review. The elections administrator offered to return with a more detailed location-by-location breakdown at a later date.