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Dallas County Republican Party has abandoned plans for a hand count of March 2026 election votes.
Dallas County Republican Chairman Allen West cited cost, staffing, and logistics concerns for the decision.
Said they were unable to recruit an adequate number of vote counters to meet state requirement of presenting vote totals 24 hours after poll closure. Nor was the more than $400,000 raised adequate to support hand counting.
Note this was for an election with an anticipated turnout of a mere 49,000 votes.
In an interview on Tuesday, West said the party would need at least 3,000 hand-counters but had recruited fewer than half that number.
Extrapolate those numbers to what it would take for even a state election with 1,000,000 votes...never mind a national election with 154.3 million to 158 million votes.
And not even considering the greatly increased likelihood of errors in human hand counts.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12...election-2026/