If You Want to Vote Early, You’ll Have to Vote by Machine

DENTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – Only days into early voting, problems have already popped up with electronic voting machines across the Metroplex.

As we told you about Monday, in Denton County, problems with central tabulating machines at early voting sites were fixed fairly quickly.

But those problems, and problems in Dallas and Tarrant Counties with their electronic machines, might make some people who plan to vote early feel a little uncomfortable.

“You also have people that have always voted on Election Day itself,” said Denton County Republican Party Chairman Lisa Hendrickson. “They’re used to, for example, having a paper ballot. But we don’t have paper ballots in early voting, we only have paper ballots on Election Day.”

Not only will you have to wait for November 8^th, but you’ll have to go to your precinct’s polling place to get one. If you don’t know which precinct you’re in, click here for more information.

Hendrickson says they kind of machines they use aren’t the same as those used by Dallas and Tarrant Counties, which have touch screens. She says they use a type that has a dial, which is turned to select candidates, then an Enter button is pressed to select that candidate.