Around 1,800 Hays County ballots not tallied in November election
HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — “Preventable human error” was behind 1,816 votes not tallied in Hays County during the November 2016 election, the elections administrator says.
Jennifer Anderson, who became administrator on Jan. 1, says her investigation into the election contest for the Anthem Municipal Utility District (MUD) revealed the lapse should have been prevented.
Anderson says, other than the Anthem MUD election, the outcomes of the Nov. 8 election in Hays County were not affected and would have been the same as they are currently.
The voting machines used in Hays County communicate with a central data storage device called a Mobile Ballot Box (MBB), which records all votes and calculates the final tally. Dozens of MBBs are used throughout Hays County, Anderson says, and one was overlooked.
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