Election officials have been dealing with their fair share of difficulties ahead of Election Day, from careful inspection by voters, to security measures surrou
Election officials have been dealing with their fair share of difficulties ahead of Election Day, from careful inspection by voters to security measures surrounding voting systems.María Méndez, who interviewed election officials preparing for this season.Méndez's reporting, she learned misinformation is one of the biggest challenges facing these officials.
"The election security experts and officials that I spoke to said that having paper ballots is key because it allows them to verify votes and answer to skepticism or concerns," saidMost counties have already made this move. Burnet County is one of the ones yet to switch over.Elections Administrator Doug Ferguson said they have had the same system for a long time. When voters go up to a voting machine, connected to a controller, it gives them a piece of paper with four digits on it.
"It's gonna cost us close to 1 million dollars to change over and that is a huge pill to swallow," He said. "We're probably going to soon after this election is over, start working on replacing everything.”
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