Voters put electronic voting machines to the test in Tarrant County, in a unique exercise aimed at building public confidence in the process ahead of the November midterm election.
For about 90 minutes Friday morning, the elections office invited voters to fill out sample ballots on the machines, but also put absentee ballots through a trial run.
In the end, once ballot board members made decisions about the intention on some of the oddly marked ballots, the machine tally on the 56 ballots cast, matched exactly with an in-person ballot-by-ballot hand count done by election staff. "We'll jump through all these hoops to say, we're trying to be open, we're trying to be transparent, we're showing you the process, the good the bad and the ugly," Garcia said.
Last year, voters around the county received postcards promoting a website called"Verify My Voting," asking them to report any discrepancies related to their voting record.