A GOP primary in Texas has sparked concerns over attempts to move away from electronic ballots.

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.

  • thefartographer
    293·
    8 months ago

    It’s disturbing how little actual information is in the linked article. I’m sure something truly concerning happened, but “more than 8,000 ballots” is literally the only metric provided and then the author just uses the article as an excuse to talk about Mike Lindell and Trump’s indictments.

    • sygnius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      8 months ago

      Keep in mind there are roughly 15 to 30 questions on each ballot. If they’re manually verifying each answer on each ballot, then it’s really easy to make mistakes.

      • thefartographer
        9·
        8 months ago

        Assuming accuracy of your numbers, you’ve literally increased the article’s concrete data by 100%

        • sygnius@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Have you looked at your ballot? You’re usually not just voting on just the primary candidate. There are also elections for senators, congressmen, judges, and town and state amendments usually included. 15 to 30 questions isn’t unreasonable. However for a town of 8,000, not sure how many town specific questions there are.

          • thefartographer
            2·
            8 months ago

            Yeah, I had 12 people on my ballot and live in a city with over 2 million. I assumed you were using assumptions, but even if you called it an estimation, I’d still give you partial credit for trying harder than the article to be informative.