Texas county unearths 10K uncounted ballots from number one day

HOUSTON (AP) — About 10,000 mail ballots have been tabulated however now not counted in Texas’ maximum populous county at the day of remaining week’s election, officers stated, including to the prolong in figuring out some winners within the country’s first number one of the 2022 midterms.

Election officers in Harris County, house to Houston, stated overdue Saturday that an “oversight” led to ten,000 ballots now not being counted. The ones votes — 6,000 Democratic and four,000 Republican — shall be added to the overall tallies Tuesday.

“Whilst the votes have been scanned into our tabulation pc, they weren’t transferred and counted as part of the unofficial ultimate effects as they will have to were,” the Harris County Elections Administrative center stated in a observation.

The AP will tabulate the extra votes from Harris County and replace its vote rely.

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