Final voting results in Dallas County are in for this year’s primary elections.
Earlier Wednesday morning, about a half dozen election workers were still tabulating more than 50,000 ballots in the county elections office, pizza boxes scattered on nearby tables. Some hadn’t slept in more than 24 hours.
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It was not immediately clear how many votes were cast after 7 p.m. Tuesday.
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A district court judge had extended voting to 9 p.m. due to widespread confusion throughout the day over where people should vote, but the Texas Supreme Court later stayed that order.
Those ballots have been separated from the others and have not been counted, Dallas County elections spokesperson Nic Solorzano said.
The confusion can be traced back to a decision from the county’s Republican party in December, which required voters to cast ballots at their assigned neighborhood precinct for the first time in a decade. In years prior, voting centers were universal.
Starting minutes after polls opened at 7 a.m., frustrated residents were turned away from voting locations and sent elsewhere. Hundreds searched for the correct sites online, enough that the county website crashed.
Some voters persisted. Others gave up entirely.
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who lost her bid for U.S. Senate, said at a news conference Tuesday that Republicans intentionally changed the voting process “to disenfranchise and confuse voters.”
This is a developing story.