MCLENNAN COUNTY, Texas — Once you’ve voted, you may wonder if your vote was accurately counted and recorded. You can check if your vote is in the system simply by using your computer.

The McLennan County Elections Administrator explains that voting systems are audited at the federal and state levels.

• Logic and accuracy tests are conducted before and after elections to ensure votes are counted correctly.
• This involves transmitting ballots through scanners and comparing the results to known results.
• The Secretary of State has a web page to find out if your vote was counted.

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The early voting numbers are in: McLennan County had a total of 73,231 early voters, Bell County had 96,480 early voters and Brazos County had 71,761 early voters.

There is an easy way to find out if your vote has been counted.

The Texas Secretary of State has a Web page for election information and turnout data. Once there, you will select the “general elections of November 5, 2024”. Next, you will choose the day you voted early and click Submit. Then scroll down to your county and download the “click here” option. This is when you search for your name.

This method indicates whether your vote was counted, but it does not indicate who you voted for. Elections Administrator Jared Goldsmith explained how the elections office ensures your vote is counted correctly.

“We have a series of tests of ballots that are marked a certain way, and we know how those ballots are marked, and we pass them through various scanners that we use in an election, and then we take the electronic results that these scanners counted. then we compare them,” said elections administrator Jared Goldsmith.

Goldsmith said thousands of ballots are tested before early voting and all of their machines count them correctly. They do another test on election night. For greater certainty, they perform a partial manual count.

“The secretary of state will give us certain contests to review, and then we’ll have a team that will manually count the paper ballots that voters voted for, and then we’ll review those hand counts with the electronic counts to make sure everything matches up. and they always match,” Goldsmith said.

Another way to find out if your vote has been counted is to visit your city’s website. It should contain a list that could be described as a “list of first voters” or a “list of electors”.
Brazos County Early Voter Roll

Bell County Early Voter Roll

McLennan County Early Voter Roll

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