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Chair flags statewide voter-list issues, urges follow-up by election staff
Summary
The meeting’s presiding Chair told the court he believed early problems during the election stemmed from discrepancies between the county and state voter lists and stressed the importance of individual follow-up calls to affected voters; election staff said the county worked through the issues and that results matched tabulation records.
The Chair told the Coryell County Commissioners Court that some early problems in the recent election appeared to be caused by the state's voter list and its interaction with the county’s systems, and he commended the county’s election staff for follow-up work to reach voters.
The Chair said he would "contend that there were some issues early on because of the state's voting list and the interconnections between our systems and the state's official voting list," and he praised Justin Crothers’s individual follow-up with voters by phone. Crothers responded that, overall, the election ran "smooth" and that ballot tabulations and recounts matched the county’s machine counts.
The Chair cautioned that upcoming changes to how the state describes and schedules voting periods will require the county to review operations and absorb extra costs. Officials did not provide specific cost estimates at the meeting.
