With early voting starting February 14, an immediate concern for Jacquelyn Callanen, Bexar County elections administrator, is possibly having to find three alternate sites since Wonderland Mall, Palo Alto College and Copernicus Community Center are now COVID-19 testing sites.
SAN ANTONIO – Nearly a year after a glitch led to a delay in reporting election results during the March 2020 primary, Bexar County election officials have finally released records explaining what went wrong. “The method used to define the Early Voting Polls in combination with the lengthy ballot in this Primary Election required additional steps and processing to obtain consolidated election results,” the report states. AdThe unofficial results were not announced until just before 3 a.m., much later than had been the case in past elections. Callanen released the report last week but did not offer an explanation about what took so long to respond to the records request. The report indicates county voting systems have been upgraded and that the elections office instituted best practice procedures for programming tabulation equipment in an effort to eliminate the issues that surfaced in March.
click to enlarge Sanford NowlinA voter drops off her ballot at the Bexar County Elections Office. New Hampshire comes in second with 11, followed by Missouri with nine.Indeed, 28 states have introduced a total of 106 voter-restriction bills this year, compared to 35 being filed in 15 states last year, according to the Brennan Center, a nonpartisan public policy group at New York University Law School. They argue that the GOP wants to limit poll access for poor and minority voters since they're likely to vote for Democratic candidates.During Texas' current legislative session, state GOP Chairman Allen West demanded that “election integrity” to be a top priority. Among other things, those measures would widen mail-in voting eligibility and let local officials operate ballot drop boxes.Of the 41 states with new election bills, 35 have introduced proposals expanding voting access, according the Brennan Center. At present, there are 406 such bills pending in state legislatures.
sacurrent.comBexar County's second day of early voting turned out more than 3,000 voters than on the first day. The Bexar County Elections Office reported that 36,892 voters showed up to the polls Wednesday compared to the 33,111 on Tuesday to kick off the early voting.
mysanantonio.comSAN ANTONIO – Despite being 65 years old, many voters like Catherine Summerville chose to vote early at the AT&T Center on Wednesday instead of using their mail-in ballots. The Elections Office Facebook page shows 1,375 mail-in ballots had been cancelled as of Wednesday. The office has already received a record 45,000 mail-in ballots, nearly half of the estimated 99,000 mail-in ballot requests its received. Others who now to choose to vote in person can go to any polling site with or without the yet-to-be-completed mail-in ballot. The judge then calls the Elections Office to cancel the mail-in ballot.
SAN ANTONIO – A Bexar County district judge ruled Tuesday that Bexar County must add 18 polling sites on Election Day. The ruling comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project demanding the additional polling sites. The Bexar County Elections Office had planned to have 284 voting sites on Nov. 3. Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said he has discussed the situation with Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen. We look forward now to working with election officials to ensure that all voters in Bexar County can vote safely and easily.”Related Stories:
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