Republican efforts to hand count ballots in a seemingly low-profile Texas county primary election has led to a number of errors.
Gillespie County Republicans, led by Chairman Bruce Campbell, decided months ago to hand-count more than 8,000 ballots for the county GOP primary on March 5. Campbell then declared the results completely accurate and certified before, less than an hour after that certification, reversing course and saying discrepancies were found.
“It’s my mistake for not catching that,” Cambell said on Thursday while sitting inside the county election administration office. “I can’t believe I did that.”
The kerfuffle over ballot counting comes after a November rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump was solidified in primaries last week.
Humans are error-prone; of course hand counting will lead to errors. Such a non-issue to try to fix. Dumb.
That’s why typically there are other election employees and observers present. Canada’s federal elections are tallied by hand count, and results are always (as far as I’m aware) certified the same day. Canada’s population is about 40 million people, so not quite the US’s 330+ million, but a lot more than this town’s 8000.
That’s their goal with the whole Dominion voting machines and crying about mail in voting. It’s to weaken our already outdated voting machines/processes and to make it easier to steal elections on their end.
Because they’re not trying to fix an issue, it’s an excuse to meddle with the election and make things worse so they can sell their “democracy is broken, vote for a strong man” schtick
It’s dumb because this is a solved problem. Where I am we have bubble ballots where you mark the box, and the machine scans it and drops it into a box. Hand audits of this technology routinely show discrepancies of literally zero over millions of votes.
This is the part which drives me crazy. The concern trolling over vote counting is so transparent, and all because the worlds stupidest orange clown has managed to inject that stupid into the brain of every Republican voter.