Bexar County elections officials are wondering why seemingly high interest in the midterm election hasn't resulted in more voters at the polls.
Bexar County will now have 302 Election Day voting locations, and Callanen said Wednesday that her department is prepared to staff them. The process for purchasing and testing new voting machines is lengthy, Callanen said, so the locations will share the county’s existing equipment.due to confusion about matching the form of identification that was used to register to vote and the identification form used on the ballot.
Callanen said Wednesday that the county has already received 61% of the mail-in ballots it sent out. Of the 6,000 mail-in ballots processed by Tuesday, Callanen said just 26 had been rejected, down from a rejection rate of roughly 22% in the primary. Of the rejected ballots, she said enough time remains for those voters to correct any mistakes, a process known as curing, so their votes can be counted.to roam voting locations and observe the process.
Callanen said the change has yet to cause a problem, and many of the partisan volunteers lost interest after the first days of early voting. “The first couple days of early voting the poll watchers were coming in and staying for extended times,” Callanen said. “Now they’re checking in in the morning and they’re leaving within a half hour, which I think is really a commendation to our election officials.”
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