The Texas Secretary of State and other election experts warned Gillespie County Republicans the process would be expensive, time-consuming and less reliable.
Gillespie County Elections Administrator Jim Riley speaks with Gillespie County Clerk Lindsey Brown in the hallway of the Elections Office in Fredericksburg early Wednesday morning.to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas., a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access.
Ballots are counted by hand on top of wine barrels at The Edge in Fredericksburg on Mar. 5, 2024. Poll workers started hand counting ballots from early voting ballots at 7 a.m.First: A van that reads 'Trump Promises Kept' sits off Main St. in Fredericksburg. Last: Campaign signs sit outside of a shop.It was not the efficient process Republicans envisioned, though one carried out with no visible calamity.
Treibs, a precinct judge and local tea party member, turned in his precinct’s election results — Precinct 13, held at an auction house — at about 2 a.m. The counting of 450 ballots wasn’t hard at all, he said. Figuring out the paperwork and reconciliation forms was more of a challenge. “It’s not like we do this every day,” he said, though he added that he’s looking forward to doing it again.
In 2020, Gillespie County Republicans carried out their primary with only 45 workers, and the results were reported in a few hours. None of the candidates challenged the results. This year, more than six times as many poll workers and counters turned up for shifts throughout the day — and some worked the entire time. Still, that fell short of the recruitment goal that party leaders told Votebeat in December they expected to clear without issue.
Jerry Vaclav served as a Democratic election judge on Tuesday, and said the Republicans’ elongated counting process and frustration over the slow trickle of results “serves them right.” Most Texas county leaders dismissed the claims. But many Republican party chairs in counties across the state — from large ones such as Dallas and Bexar to rural counties such as Uvalde in South Texas — considered hand counting before determining it would be more costly, logistically chaotic, and require around double the number of election workers or more.
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