TX District 1 (Upshur County, Texas) - NONE of the voting machines are working.

[fleur-de-lisa]

Hank Gilbert @Hank4Texas - Democratic candidate for US Congress from Texas' First Congressional District

US House candidate, TX-1: In Upshur County in my district not a single vote has been cast in the two hours the polls have been open because NONE of their voting machines are working.

8:58 AM · Nov 3, 2020

Link to tweet

[marie999]

1. They need to get rid of all voting machines, paper ballots only.

[Beakybird]

2. What about paper ballots in case this happens?

[hurl]

3. Hope Hank crushes Louie Gohmert

[Roland99]

4. That county went 85-15 for trump in 2016

So far, the 3 reports I've seen of voting issues have ALL been in VERY red counties

[BSdetect]

5. Vote early any way you can in future, This is crazy.

[clutterbox1830]

6. Everyone should have the right to vote no matter political stance. That being said

this is an ultra conservative county in TX.

In Upshur County, TX 14.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 82.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.

It is fairly small county too.

[getagrip_already]

7. small county, red I assume?

Only 35,000 residents in 2010?

Doesn't matter, everyone should vote. Just that the reports from GA and TX so far are in small rural areas. Of course, that's where you would hack into if you wanted to salt in the vote.

[fleur-de-lisa]

9. Yes. Hank Gilbert, the tweeter, is running to replace Louie Gohmert.

[beachbumbob]

8. karma, same in Georgia where machines failing in rural red counties

[Rice4VP]

10. Dotard got 83% of the vote there in 2016

Tots and Pears

[LizBeth]

11. By Lo border I would imagine very red.

[lpbk2713]

12. Bubba, their voting machine handyman, got drunk last night.

He should be fairly straight some time after lunch.

Then he'll start tinkering around with the machines.

Tinkering means kicking and pounding on them.