Tarrant GOP won't hand-count ballots in 2026 but will explore options for future elections [View all]

Tarrant County Republicans won’t hand-count ballots during the party’s March primary, members confirmed to the Fort Worth Report on Tuesday.

Party members previously indicated they would move to manually tallying votes in their effort to enhance election security and prevent fraud.

Members of the GOP’s resolution committee took no action nor had discussion on hand-counting ballots during a Tuesday meeting, the last of the year.

“There’s a lot of moving parts associated with it — I don’t know that anybody at this point is convinced that all those pieces are working correctly,” Richard Jimmink, who chaired the resolution committee, said after the meeting.


https://fortworthreport.org/2025/12/10/tarrant-gop-wont-hand-count-ballots-in-2026-but-will-explore-options-for-future-elections/