Dallas County asks for Super Tuesday recount after discovering it missed some ballots

[RandySF]

Dallas County officials are seeking a recount of the March 3 primary results after discovering that an unknown number of ballots were not initially counted.

In a petition filed late Friday in state district court, Dallas County election administrator Toni Pippins-Poole said her office has discovered that ballots from 44 tabulating machines were not accounted for in the election results reported by the county on Super Tuesday. It’s unclear how many ballots were missing from the county’s tally of votes.

The issue turned up after county officials were unable to reconcile the number of voters who checked in to cast ballots at some polling places and the number of ballots received from those sites.

It’s unclear which polling places are in question. There were 454 polling places open on Election Day, and each site had one or more machines into which voters fed their marked backup paper ballots so they could be scanned and tabulated, according to an affidavit by Pippins-Poole.



https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/07/dallas-county-asks-super-tuesday-recount-after-it-missed-ballots/

[getagrip_already]

1. yeah, and where were they and who had access to them?

I smell a rat.

[badhair77]

2. This is inexcusable.

[RandySF]

3. Exactly

Forty-four machines could have a significant impact on local races.

[Indykatie]

4. Machine Ballots Would Most Likely Favor Biden If the Trend That We Saw in Other States Held

I'm hope Biden's delegate total will be so large those missing ballots become moot in the calculation of delegates. Otherwise it would just give conspiracy theorists some to harp on.