Harris County

could not be found by Dallas County, precluding the analysis FAD sought to perform regarding those particular locations.

Harris County’s records management plan can be found on its website.521 The records related to the 2020 General Election were contained in over 500 boxes stored at the Election Technology Center (ETC) warehouse without any inventory or directory.522 The only way to determine what was potentially contained in a box was to review what was written on the outside of the boxes. Harris County provided FAD with access to all of the boxes in the warehouse related to the 2020 General Election and Harris County Elections Department staff assisted with moving boxes as necessary to provide them to the audit team for review.

Figure 12-4: Examples of the labeling system for boxes in the ETC warehouse.

521 See records.harriscountytx.gov/Portals/records/Documents/Records_and_Information_Management_Plan_ 2021.pdf https://records.harriscountytx.gov/Portals/records/Documents/Records_and_Information_Managemen t_Plan_2021.pdf?ver=zIq9vyjffoR4ljaYBXmkNw%3d%3d 522 We believe that the warehouse contained 534 boxes based upon our count. Without an inventory, however, we are unable to verify that this number is correct.

Figure 12-5: Examples of the labeling system for boxes in the ETC warehouse.523

In many cases, boxes were mislabeled or the contents of the boxes did not appear to be correct.

Figure 12-6: Harris County maintained some MBBs and Central Count Packets in a gray tub, separate from the other boxes containing Central Count Packets. As seen in the photos, there were loose MBBs and incomplete records regarding the reason for such storage.

523 The boxes in the ETC warehouse were all stored on pallets. During on-site inspection, these boxes were removed from the pallets to review documents as evidenced by the photos depicting them having been moved off of a pallet.

Figure 12-7: A manila envelope located in a box labeled as associated with uncontested races that contained 16 MBBs from drive-through voting polling locations.

Figure 12-8: A manila envelope located in a box labeled as associated with a Recount that contained MBBs from Early Voting polling locations.