The recount of ballots cast Nov. 5 in Comal County proceeded Thursday evening under the watchful eyes of staffers from the Texas Secretary of State’s Office. “We’re going to finish today,” County Clerk Joy Streater, the recount supervisor, predicted from the elections office where the recount of 16,000 ballots had commenced at 8:30 a.m. Schertz Mayor Michael Carpenter later said he’d heard it might be 11 p.m. or later before results would be released for city council races there and for state constitutional amendments and contests in the Comal Independent School District and the Cibolo Creek Municipal Authority.
The county sought the recount because electronic voting machines issued incomplete results that were reported to the state and a subsequent audit of the machines showed more people voted in a Schertz race than were eligible.
In petitioning a judge Tuesday for the recount, Assistant District Attorney Tillman S. Roots wrote that County Elections Administrator Julie Kassab “committed irregularities, mistakes and inconsistencies on election night.”
Source: Election recount drags on in Comal County – San Antonio Express-News.