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Texas county elections administrator resigns after voting mishaps, including 10,000 uncounted mail-in ballots
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The elections administrator in Texas’s most populous county has resigned following voting mishaps together with 10,000 mail-in ballots not being tallied on election day.
Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria introduced throughout a gathering of county commissioners she would resign on July 1.
HOUSTON, Nov. 4, 2020 — Younger voters present the “I Voted” stickers after voting at a polling station in Plano, Texas (Xinhua/Dan Tian through Getty Photographs)
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Longoria mentioned she took duty for the issues throughout final Tuesday’s election in Harris County, the place Houston is positioned.
“In the end, the buck stops with me. I didn’t meet my very own requirements,” she mentioned.
AUSTIN, TX – JULY 13: The U.S. and Texas flags wave exterior the Texas Capitol (Photograph by Montinique Monroe/Getty Photographs)
Late Saturday, election officers in Harris County mentioned that an “oversight” led to 10,000 ballots not being counted. These votes — 6,000 Democratic and 4,000 Republican — could be added to the ultimate tallies on Tuesday. Longoria was additionally criticized for a gradual rely that took 30 hours to finish.
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Along with the uncounted ballots, points with voting machines and a scarcity of ballot employees had been additionally reported.
Moreover, paper ballots delivered to voting websites had been delivered on paper that was the improper dimension which brought about candidates to be left off the poll.
Longoria’s resignation got here hours after Harris County Choose Lina Hidalgo known as for a change in management and a day after the Harris County Republican Occasion introduced the submitting of litigation to take away Longoria from her put up.
Longoria was appointed because the county’s first elections administrator on the age of 32 in 2020 by the county commissioner’s court docket which incorporates Hidalgo, a progressive Democrat.
Longoria’s July 1 resignation date will come roughly a month after the runoff elections within the main course of are scheduled to happen in Texas along with different native races.
“Longoria makes $190,000 a yr,” Republican Texas State. Rep. Briscoe Cain informed Fox Information. “By making her resignation efficient on July 1, her incompetence is rewarded on the taxpayers’ expense.”
Individuals of various ages stand and vote on the voting cubicles arrange in opposition to the wall of the varsity gymnasium.
“If she was so incompetent why are they going to maintain her round for the first and different elections which might be coming between now and July?” Briscoe added.
Hidalgo’s workplace and the workplace of the elections administrator didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox Information.
Related Press contributed to this report