Early Voting Extended

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Early voting extended to Saturday
Bexar County has an extra day of early voting thanks to a compromise reached Tuesday between state officials and a Hispanic civil rights group that had been challenging the election date set for the runoff in Congressional District 23.Following the agreement, U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez in San [...]

Why in the world is the State objecting?

Bexar extends early voting for District 23; state objects:
Bexar County commissioners on Tuesday added two days of early voting to the runoff in Congressional District 23, agreeing to calls for the move from Democrat Ciro Rodriguez’s campaign and a civil rights group.But Scott Haywood, spokesman for the Texas secretary of state’s office, said the [...]

Some more voting numbers

According to Bexar County, my polling place had a total of 753 voters. We had eight voting machines and at least six poll workers. One of the other polling places we visited on election day registered a total of 887 voters with six machines and four workers that we could identify.
As I’ve stated before, these [...]

Poll failures put results of future ballots in doubt | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Poll failures put results of future ballots in doubt | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Problems not addressed
Voting experts say it is impossible to know how many votes were not counted that should have been. But in Florida alone, the discrepancies reported across Sarasota County and three others amount to more than 60,000 votes. In Colorado, as [...]

Casting Your Vote, cont.

So what does our little precinct tour mean? In terms of drawing conclusions, nothing. It wasn’t scientific, it wasn’t random, it wasn’t even planned. We’re pretty certain about the number of machines available but we could have easily missed some of the poll workers. Our observations prove nothing.
It does mean that somewhere someone should have [...]

My election day experience

Yesterday, I was just too shell-shocked to post about this. I will talk a little bit about that in a while but right now–election day. I got to my polling place around 10:30. There were 6 machines and 4 workers, two behind desks, one in the line and one setting up machines. There was quite [...]

Casting your vote

So what was your voting experience like? Mine was pretty positive. I pulled up to my precinct polling place at around 9:00 am and easily found a place to park. A poll worker was putting up signs in the parking lot to point to which entrance to go to.
Inside, there were two tables set up, [...]