General Election 2026 Voting Briefs

The question every one of these briefs comes back to, set to music. If a system cannot tell us WHO voted, how can we trust that system to give us a COUNT of who voted?

This posting puts Dallas County's own early-voting records side by side with the Texas Secretary of State's records for the same days and the same voters. It shows what both looked like on October 22, 2026. It includes a correction we caught in review, and we show that correction openly. The next link (Part 2: what changed) shows the same comparison as of October 23 at 5 PM: what changed, what stayed the same, and what is new. No voter is named, and none of this is an allegation against any voter.

Here is an update on what changed from OCT 22 to OCT 23.

We checked the State of Texas's list of who has voted in El Paso County against the county's own lists, name by name, through October 22. They don't match.

The state counts 3,653 El Paso mail votes it can't put a name to. The county got 3,829 mail ballots back before October 14, and the state's list has none of them. The county listed 2,288 mail voters as voting in person, then swapped the list. And 302 people the county lists as voting in person aren't on the state's list at all. Four records of El Paso mail ballots give four different numbers: 5,986, 5,947, 5,582 and 1,929.

This is not an allegation against any voter. If a system cannot tell us WHO voted, how can we trust that system to give us a COUNT of who voted?

Here is an update on what changed from OCT 20 to OCT 23.

Update, October 23, 2026: Johnson, three days later: what changed.

Johnson County's own list of who has voted, set voter by voter against the Secretary of State's public early-voting record: every download of October 20, 2026.

In two of those downloads the state listed 22 Johnson voters as voting in person on Sunday, October 18. By the state's own calendar, early voting in person did not start until Monday. By 5:19 PM the same 22 had been moved to Monday. Meanwhile the county lists 311 mail voters. The state's roster lists 2, and no voter is on both lists.

Each side says its figures come from the other. The full brief shows the numbers, download by download.

Tarrant County's own list of the mail ballots it has received back, set voter by voter against the Secretary of State's public early-voting roster.

The Secretary of State says its early-voting data come directly from each county. If that were so, the two records would match. They do not. Tarrant's file lists 11,935 ballots received back through October 19. The state's roster, downloaded October 20, lists 9,575. 1,308 ballots Tarrant received between September 24 and October 17 are not on the state's record, and the state removed 74 Tarrant mail voters from its record from one download to the next.