| First off, check out Sonia's extensive roundup of voting problems written about by state and local newspapers.
 The inspired me to hunt down a story that I thought was a fluke at the time, because it was a vote count issue with Duval county, which is pretty much the norm there.
Local races in Duval County generated 55% turnout (Corpus Christi Caller Times), compared to the statewide turnout of 10%. My favorite part is when & how those votes were cast.
In local Duval County races, turnout was more than five times the state average, with 5,533, or 55 percent, of the county's 9,839 registered voters turning in the county judge's race and 5,317, or 54 percent, voting in the treasurer's election, according to election returns. All who voted in Duval County are registered Democrats.
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Some of the callers to the state from Duval County asked why 4,098 of the 5,445 primary ballots were early voters and why 2,800 of those were by mail. Mail-in ballots are limited by law to registered voters 65 or older, the disabled, people who will be out of the county on Election Day and during early voting, and eligible voters confined in jail.
For comparison's sake, Haywood said, of 5,600 early votes in Galveston County, 488 were by mail. In Nueces County, of 9,616 early votes, 225 were by mail, said Nueces County elections manager Lisa Garza.
If true, it just goes to show you that you don't need electronic voting machines to get you concerned about the integrity of the vote; it can be done the old fashioned way and it's much of an issue of election officials as it is the machines.
Speaking of vote counts, Anthony Gutierrez our Regional Field Director for the DNC contacted me concerning my post yesterday on Gillespie County voting for Gene "Can't Dance" Kelly for some reason. Apparently the Sec. of State election returns online are wrong. Radnofsky took 70% of the county vote according to the official canvas and the SOS got it reversed. That eases my mind about voters in Frederickburg, but it makes me wonder just how many other errors there are in the SOS results. |
