Post-2020 Legislative Mandated Reconciliation Improvements

Figure 6-129: Tarrant County Early Voting Number of Locations and Discrepancies

Election Day

Tarrant County had 331 polling locations for Election Day voting.

The data in Tarrant County data reflected 101,369 voters checked in and there were 101,275 ballots tabulated from Election Day voting. There was a discrepancy of 94 between check-ins and ballots tabulated.

The number of locations with discrepancies and a breakdown of these discrepancies was:

# of Polling Locations Discrepancy Between Check-ins and Ballots Tabulated

225 0

105 1-10

1 11-50

Figure 6-130: Tarrant County Election Day Number of Locations and Discrepancies

In conducting this analysis, it was observed that some polling locations had changed names or were shut down so the names in the audit log did not match exactly. Tarrant County was able to account for all of these occurrences. There were two entries that appeared in the audit log as simply being associated with “EV” or “ED” – comprising a total of less than 400 ballots. Tarrant County was informed that best practice is to ensure polling location media is programmed to properly reflect the location from to which it goes and is in the process of determining exactly which locations these two vDrives came from.

Post-2020 Legislative Mandated Reconciliation Improvements

To assist the election night reconciliation process, SB 1 created new requirements and forms that the counties are required to complete. A presiding judge of the central count station shall provide and attest to a written reconciliation of ballots and voters

at the close of tabulation on election day. Then a final reconciliation form must be filled out after the central counting station meets for the last time to process latearriving ballots by mail and provisionals. The form shall be maintained by the county along with election returns and results. When properly filled out this form has the potential to alleviate many issues that plagued the 2020 General Election.226

226 Tex. Elec. Code § 127.131 (f).