Hey, Texans! If You're Voting Straight Ticket On A Machine, Check Your Ballot.
A voting rights group is warning Texans to double check their ballots if they are voting straight ticket, because some voters are reporting problems with a commonly used voting machine in the state.
The Texas Civil Rights Project said it has heard about issues with the Hart eSlate machines, which are used in Travis County and many other counties.
“We’ve been hearing reports of voters who go to the booths, they try to vote straight ticket and then the next screen they see it appears that their vote has been selected for a candidate of the opposing party,” said James Slattery, a senior staff attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project.
Slattery said, thankfully, this is an easy problem “to identify and fix.” He said voters should always double check all their votes were cast the way they intended before hitting the big red button that says “CAST BALLOT.” He said these voting machines are old and finicky and, unfortunately, voters need to be extra vigilant.
“It appears they date back to the turn of the century,” he said. “It really underscores how antiquated and backwards some of the Texas voting technology is.”
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