Dear Editor,
I would like to offer some words of comfort to Texas voters.
The people who work at the polling locations in your county are residents of your county. They are your neighbors and maybe even your friends. Their job is to make sure every registered voter can cast a vote. They take their jobs seriously. They must complete a great deal of paperwork to account for every ballot, whether it is a cast ballot or an unused or spoiled ballot. How do I know this? I have been an election worker in Texas.
We elect our county elections officials. They are honorable, hard-working people, who study the Texas election code and abide by it. They hire honorable people to help them. If not, then surely you wouldn’t have voted for them.
Postal service employees working in your county are dedicated to delivering mail on time. If you have a mailin ballot, put it in the mail as quickly as you can. USPS mail carriers will deliver it to the county courthouse as soon as possible.
Finally, every vote cast in your county is counted in your county. No ballot is sent off somewhere else so “they” can count it.
Voting is local. To perpetrate some kind of voting fraud, with 254 individual county elections officials in Texas, would be like herding cats. They would be mostly really nice cats, but still…
Suzann Thompson
Comanche County
Democratic Party Chair