On March 10, Dallas County underwent a recount for almost 7,000 votes cast on March 3 during Super Tuesday primaries.
The ballots did not affect the overall outcome of the Super Tuesday primaries.
Dallas County Election Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole immediately filed for a petition and affidavit requesting a manual recount on March 6 after discovering the almost 7,000 uncounted ballots.
Dallas County Election Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole
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Pippins-Poole found the ballots belonged to the thumb drives of 44 machines with votes that were not accounted for in the primary results. The machines were from Dallas, Garland, Grand Prairie, Irving, Mesquite and Rowlett counties.
State District Judge Emily Tobolowsky called for a hearing on March 10 and granted Pippins-Poole’s request for a recount that occurred on March 11.
The votes from the uncounted thumb drives did encompass a tenth of the voting centers open on Super Tuesday however they did not affect the overall outcome of the election in Texas, officials told WFAA.
"Of the 44 thumb drives, 16 were not received in a timely manner to the Elections Department and 28 were from voting machines not scheduled to be used but were used by volunteer election officials," Pippins-Poole told WFAA.
"That’s the reason why I want this recount – to reassure their votes are going to be counted properly," she said. "That is why we’re here today."
The petition granted by the court allowed Pippins-Poole to reopen the central counting process and use the paper ballots from the 44 uncounted for machines in the recount process.
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