The Tarrant County Elections Department held a public demonstration of its voting system earlier this week.
On Monday, machine and hand-marked ballots were tested in front of members of the public. The ballots were only used to validate the voting machine results, reported Fox 4 KDFW.
Members of the public were able to witness the testing at the Tarrant County Election Administration (TCEA).
“The Public Participation event that included the public and the media went well. The turnout was slightly less than the Public Participation event held before the March primaries. The state-mandated Public Test is ongoing and will continue for the rest of the week,” a spokesperson for TCEA told The Dallas Express.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, an election integrity group has spotlighted alleged improprieties in Tarrant County when it comes to voting.
Adam Hanson called for a recount of the results of the March 5 primary in which he lost the race to become the Republican nominee for constable to his opponent, Dale Clark, by a narrow margin of 47 votes. A hand recount of the ballots uncovered numerous irregularities, prompting Hanson to petition to contest the election results.
Rosalie Escobedo, a Tarrant County Republican Party activist and director of Citizens Defending Freedom’s Tarrant County branch, previously posted a link to a document outlining the purported election irregularities uncovered in the recount.
“The findings from the Hanson recount are disconcerting. They’re not just significant for this particular race, but they raise crucial questions about the overall reliability of Tarrant County’s election process. It’s astounding to see such substantial discrepancies in tight races, with a net shift of 28 votes in this recount and a host of other anomalies,” Escobedo previously told DX.