A ballot box found weeks after Election Day has flipped a $569 million school bond vote in Texas

[TheBlackAdder]

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A ballot box found weeks after Election Day has flipped a $569 million school bond vote in Midland, Texas


After much flip-flopping, a $569 million Midland ISD school bond election failed Friday by 26 votes now that county workers have taken into account ballots found in a missing box located weeks after Election Day.

The local election had drawn the attention of the Texas secretary of state’s office and some lawmakers due to the numerous twists and turns. On election night, Midland voters watching the polls initially believed the bond passed by 18 votes because of the results posted on Midland County’s election website. But a week after the posting, officials clarified to reporters that the election night tally didn’t include mail-in votes. Once those numbers were taken into account, officials believed the bond failed by 25 votes, according to Deborah Land, elections administrator for the Midland County Elections Office.

We Choose Our Future, a specific-purpose political action committee in favor of the bond, quickly called for a recount. That recount, which wrapped up before the county found the missing box, flipped the results back again. With county officials believing that the bond had passed by 11 votes, the result of the manual recount was canvassed — or made official — Nov. 15, when it was signed by County Judge Terry Johnson.
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County officials found the missing box in early December. Taking into account those 836 votes, plus one stray ticket found separately from the box that had also been misplaced, the results flipped again. The new version of final results, which Land said should finally lay the issue to rest, was 11,800 votes in favor of the bond and 11,826 against. The result means that Midland ISD will not receive the authority to build two new high schools.


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/a-ballot-box-found-weeks-after-election-day-has-flipped-a-569-million-school-bond-vote-in-midland-texas/

Texas is warming up for the 2020 General Elections, as to what bullshit will fly unchallenged!

Texas is the new Ohio

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[getagrip_already]

1. You don't just misplace a ballot box...

This is an old tactic. You misplace a box from a particular district. If the count goes your way, it stays lost.

If not, it is found and counted.

It gives you two taps on goal. Especially if you can open and reseal that lost box.

But in reality, you should never misplace a ballot box. They are treated like evidence with a chain of custody.

[lark]

2. Fucking pisses me off.

When a whole box of over a thousand votes was found in Broward County post office, stupid FL judge disallowed it. Scott was allowed to take this to court and got a verdict that gave him the office over Nelson. Nelson would have won (going on statistics) if the box had been counted but FL repugs stopped it and stole the election.

[BSdetect]

3. Gerrymandering, voter obstacles, voting on weekday, early closings, fewer polling booths, missing bo

xes, results tampering, interference, how is this not a third world banana republic?

[empedocles]

4. People criticize DC a lot. By comparison DC receives far, far more oversight,

[and is more effective ] than most State, Local governments, and institutions.

[walkingman]

5. I have zero confidence in the election system in Texas. GOP will do anything to stay in power and

I expect it to be a common occurrence this year. We already have voter suppression, removal of voting roles, decrease of voting location in order to make wait times longer. Sorry bastards are running this state.

[jmowreader]

6. Please tell me one of three things

Either:

1) that number is for twenty years,
2) that’s the misprint of the decade, or
3) the Midland Independent School District intends to call artillery in on every school they own and start from scratch.

There is absolutely no way a school system in an under-200k-population town needs HALF A BILLION DOLLARS of supplemental school funding - not even if they’re planning to outdo Allen Eagle Stadium.