Overview
- Texas’s five largest counties posted record or near‑record first‑day early voting, with Bexar County recording about 42,776 in‑person votes on Monday.
- Bexar County traced missing ballot measures to state‑supplied district‑split data that transposed ballots and said it corrected the mapping after the problem was reported.
- A new scanner at the Leon Valley Conference Center jammed and produced waits up to two hours, and county officials deployed technicians and are using emergency ballot bins when machines fail.
- To handle higher turnout, the county added voting machines, check‑in stations and phone staff and launched a wait‑time app, but a printing backlog limits voter registration card output to about 250 per day and left more than 130,000 cards delayed.
- Officials will begin running early ballots through tabulators on Oct. 31 and will release results after polls close on Nov. 3, and analysts warn the early surge may not predict final outcomes because it can shrink later early voting and Election Day turnout.