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Voters deserve prompt returns
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he Nov. 5 elections are over, as voters in Converse, Windcrest, Cibolo, Schertz, Cibolo Creek Municipal Authority and the Comal Independent School District made their voices heard. But the trouble in this election is that final outcomes in several of those locales remained incomplete or questionable a week after voters went to the ballot box. Results from Converse and Windcrest, tallied by the Bexar County Elections Board, were complete around 10 p.m. on election night. Everywhere else was another matter. Cibolo’s elections for mayor and the recall of one of four City Council members, initially decided by five votes and one vote, hung in the balance while provisional votes and mail-in ballots were counted. Granted, by law there’s a five-day window following an election to count those ballots – and the fifth day was Veterans Day, meaning those tallies should have been completed on Nov. 12. However, it wasn’t until the next day voters were assured that Lisa Jackson would be the city’s new mayor and that Ron Pedde retained his seat on the council. Even worse was the mess presided over by the Comal County Elections Office, which compiled results for the CISD bond election and was one of three counties involved in tallying votes for Schertz council and the CCMA. The number of available voting machines weren’t enough to handle an unexpected surge of voters in some precincts, and on top of that, those machines failed to account for every vote cast. That nightmare didn’t affect the outcomes for the CISD bond, which failed, nor the lone contested CCMA election. But it delayed the final outcomes for three Schertz council races. Folks who take the time to vote deserve better. Let’s hope they can get it right next time.
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