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BY DON MUNSCH & JONATHAN PERRIELLO
Tarrant County to use prenumbered ballots in November election Tarrant County is shifting to prenumbered, sequential ballots for the Nov. 5 presidential elections following a Tarrant County Election Board vote April 2. The details In the current system, the county purchases and distributes blank ballot paper to polling locations, Ludwig told commissioners during a presentation at an April 2 meeting. Voters then insert the ballot paper into the voting machine, which assigns each ballot a random serial number linked to the machine that can be tracked through the voting process. Under the changes, election judges will now send Tarrant County ballots to polling locations prenumbered and preshuffled to preserve voting
Council hears from residents in survey Most Keller residents think the city is headed in the right direction, City Council learned at its April 2 meeting. However, that percentage has declined in the last two years, according to a recent online survey conducted in March. The gist The survey showed 73% of respondents thought the city was headed in the right direction, but that percentage dropped from 82% in 2022. Ron Gailey, CEO and founder of OnPointe Insights, said the survey involved a number of areas, such as city facilities as well as development and growth. He said Keller rated well compared to other cities and called the results “amazing.”
Changing ballots Prenumbered ballots will have added costs.
Blank paper ballots: $290* Prenumbered ballots: $320* Number of registered Tarrant County voters: 1.3M Approximate cost difference: $39,000
*COST PER 1,000 BALLOTS
SOURCE: TARRANT COUNTY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
secrecy. Poll workers will then lay them out on tables for voter selection, Ludwig said. These ballots will still receive the unique identifier when run through the voting machines. However, unlike the blank ballots, any unused prenumbered ballots cannot be repurposed for another election. The prenumbered ballots are assigned to specific polling locations and must remain as a record. The county judge estimated about $13,000 worth of ballots would be “thrown away” during the Nov. 5 presidential election.
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