Harris County Elections officials announced late Saturday that they overlooked 10,000 mail-in ballots while tallying up the results of last Tuesday’s primary elections.
A Harris County worker sorts mail-in ballots applications at the Harris County Clerk’s election headquarters at the NRG Arena on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Houston.Harris County election officials must still tally an additional 10,000 mail-in ballots, nearly a week after polls closed in a primary election plagued with problems, including hourslong delays tracked back to a Baytown precinct judge’s failure to return a piece of voting equipment.
“We have reached out to and are working in coordination with the Secretary of State’s Office as we investigate the missteps that took place in this process,” officials said. “While we understand the seriousness of this error, the ability to identify and correct this issue is a result of a lengthy, rigorous process and is a positive example of the process ultimately working as it should.”
“We agree that this is the process working as it should, and we note that it’s only because this Election Night reconciliation form is now required for all 254 counties that we were able to identify the discrepancy and work with the county to find out exactly what happened,” said secretary of state spokesman Sam Taylor.
Those votes have since been processed, and elections officials stressed that the integrity of those votes was not at risk.
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