Responses

• Total number of mail ballot voters that cancelled their mail ballot without surrendering the mailed ballot and voted provisionally in person; and

• Total number of mail ballot voters that surrendered their mail ballot and voted in person.

Collin County, 348 Dallas County,

349 Harris County350 and Tarrant County’s 351 Initial Letter Responses

Each of the four counties responded to the Secretary of State’s initial request by letter as follows:

Information Requested Collin County Dallas County Harris County Tarrant County

Total Early Voting Ballots by Mail Requested

Total Early Voting Ballots by Mail Sent out 43,931 100,751 194,566352 89,305

43,814 103,220 206,020 89,305

Total Early Voting Ballots requested by FPCA

Early Voting Ballots by Mail Accepted

3,581 5,704 12, 895 4,983

35,650 76,839 179, 174 65,995

348 See Letter from Bruce Sherbet, Collin County Elections Administrator. 349 See Letter from Michael Scarpello, Dallas County Elections Administrator. 350 Letter from Elections Administrator of Harris County addressed to Texas Secretary of State, Attachment 1: Responses to Texas SOS December 10 Initial Requests” from Harris County Administrator, Isabel Longoria. December 21, 2021. 351 See Letter from Heider Garcia, Tarrant County Elections Administrator. 352 Harris County indicated this figure did not include FPCA or Emergency Ballot applications.

Information Requested Collin County Dallas County Harris County Tarrant County

Early Voting Ballots by Mail Rejected 27 784

224353 311

Total number of mail ballot voters that cancelled their mail ballot without surrendering the mailed ballot and voted provisionally in person 2,474 14,091354 8,337 11,735355

Total number of mail ballot voters that cancelled their mail ballot without surrendering the mailed ballot and voted regularly in person

Total number of mail ballot voters that surrendered their mail ballot and voted in person 4,832 57

45,225

Figure 8-2: Four Counties’ Response to Secretary of State Request

The FAD began its analysis of ballots by mail with a focus on reconciliation and a review of applicable processes and procedures. FAD requested documentation from

353 Harris County indicated that in addition to the 224 ballots rejected, 609 ballots were returned late. Accordingly, Harris County indicated they received a total of 180,007 ballots by mail. 354 Dallas County did not break this number down by voters who cancelled by surrendering their ballot and those who cancelled without surrendering and voted provisionally. 355 Tarrant County did not break this number down by voters who cancelled by surrendering their ballot and those who cancelled without surrendering and voted provisionally. Tarrant County indicated the system “does not record whether the voter surrendered the ballot or not.”