(Headline USA) About 10,000 mail ballots were tabulated but not counted in Texas’ most populous county on the day of last week’s election, officials said, adding to the delay in determining some winners in the nation’s first primary of the 2022 midterms.
Election officials in Harris County, home to Houston, said late Saturday that an “oversight” led to 10,000 ballots not being counted. Those votes — 6,000 Democratic and 4,000 Republican — will be added to the final tallies Tuesday.
“While the votes were scanned into our tabulation computer, they were not transferred and counted as a part of the unofficial final results as they should have been,” the Harris County Elections Office said in a statement.
However, the “oversight” raised questions anew concerning the election administration in a county where voting fraud ran rampant in 2020, resulting in multiple investigations of Democrat officials.
Using tired tropes and euphemisms like “voting rights” to paint a false picture, leftists have actively fought against stronger election-integrity measures that were enacted following the 2020 efforts brought to light in multiple states.
The county’s sudden discovery of new votes could offer a potential roadmap for how it plans to manipulate outcomes in spite of state regulations.
The March 1 primary was the first statewide election that took place in Texas under new, tighter voting laws. Thousands of mail ballots were rejected statewide for not having the new, required identification.
While the Associated Press earlier claimed that the laws were to blame for delays in the vote tabulation, the new developments in Harris County suggest that the problem is endemic to blue-led regions.
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press
