Uncounted ballots and delayed election results caused Isabel Longoria to resign from her Elections Administrator post. Since then, Harris County elections observers have been wondering how things went south in the county.
As for the Texas Tribue’s political reporter James Barragán, the move of the county to new a voting machine-based system potentially complicated the results. Barragán also said that the elections office in the county failed to count or misplaced 10,000 postal votes, which made things worse.
Barragán said that it appears that every election result was held, but the situation contributed to Elections Administrator Longoria’s resignation.
It is only among the recent news stories from Texas politics. In other news, Attorney General candidate Lee Merrit suspended his AG campaign, and another county is joining in Governor Greg Abbot’s problematic border security endeavor. You can listen to the podcast of Texas Standard for more news from the world of politics in Texas.
