Tarrant County, Texas · November 3, 2026 general election · mail ballots, as of October 20, 2026

Tarrant’s ballots, the state’s record

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.

This is not an allegation against any voter.

11,935

mail ballots Tarrant’s own file lists as received back, through October 19 C0145

9,575

Tarrant mail voters on the state’s roster, downloaded October 20, 5:19 PM C0145

1,308

ballots Tarrant received September 24 to October 17 that the state’s record does not carry C0146

Tarrant mail voters the state removed from its record from one download to the next C0147

By the day Tarrant received the ballot

For every day from September 24 to October 17, the state’s record lacks some of the ballots Tarrant received. Ballots received as long ago as September 28 are still missing. C0146

Received by TarrantCarried on the state’s record

Show the figures as a table

Tarrant received the ballot on	Received	On the state’s record	Claim
Sep 24	2	1	C0146
Sep 25	4	1	C0146
Sep 28	22	13	C0146
Sep 29	18	8	C0146
Sep 30	14	4	C0146
Oct 1	22	12	C0146
Oct 2	24	16	C0146
Oct 3	23	21	C0146
Oct 5	37	28	C0146
Oct 6	94	63	C0146
Oct 7	212	199	C0146
Oct 8	604	572	C0146
Oct 9	1,122	1,057	C0146
Oct 13	2,377	2,214	C0146
Oct 14	1,384	1,287	C0146
Oct 15	1,850	1,734	C0146
Oct 16	1,714	1,297	C0146
Oct 17	1,164	852	C0146
Oct 19	1,248	0	C0146

Of the 1,308 ballots received through October 17 that the state does not carry, 910 carry an ordinary 10-digit state voter ID, and 857 of those have a Texas mailing address. C0146

InferenceThe state’s record names voters by that same ID, so the number cannot be the reason these voters are missing. For ballots received in September and early October, the state’s record has had days or weeks to carry them. C0146

The state’s record across its downloads

From the morning of October 15 to the morning of October 18, every download of the state’s roster carried the same 4,314 Tarrant mail voters. In each of the three downloads where it next grew, the state also removed voters it had carried the download before. C0147

Tarrant’s own file removed no one between its builds of October 17 and October 19. C0147

Tarrant received 14 ballots on September 30. The state carried 6 of them on October 16 C0134 and carries 4 on October 20. C0146

Oct 15, 7:56 AM2,042 C0147

Oct 15, 9:17 AM – Oct 18, 5:19 AM4,314 C0147

Oct 18, 9:18 AM5,62933 removed C0147

Oct 18, 1:15 PM7,51516 removed C0147

Oct 18, 5:18 PM – Oct 20, 5:20 AM7,516 C0147

Oct 20, 9:18 AM9,57525 removed C0147

Oct 20, 1:20 PM – 5:19 PM9,575 C0147

Voters the state names and Tarrant withholds

The state’s roster names 196 Tarrant mail voters whose ID is not in Tarrant’s file. 172 of them are not in it by name either. Tarrant’s file lists 185 returned ballots from the same days as “--Redacted--”, with no name and no number, in 113 precincts. C0149

The state’s 172 voters not in Tarrant’s file C0149

168 of 172 (97.7%) are in a precinct where Tarrant has a redacted ballot C0149

Tarrant’s named ballots, same days (the comparator)

1,095 of 10,502 (10.4%) are in such a precinct C0149

Counted precinct by precinct, the redacted ballots and the state’s 172 are equal in 98 of the 113 precincts. C0149

InferenceThe voters Tarrant lists as “--Redacted--” appear on the state’s public roster, by name. Tarrant’s file withholds their names; the state’s roster publishes them. C0149

The voter numbers themselves

What the records show	Count	Claim
Ballots in Tarrant’s file under the county’s own certificate number, not a state voter ID	213	C0148
Ballots in Tarrant’s file marked “--Redacted--”, with no name and no number	216	C0148

Limits

One build of Tarrant’s file. Every county figure is from the build of October 19, 8:15 PM, downloaded October 20, 5:14 AM; the figure for removals from Tarrant’s file also reads the build of October 17, 3:55 PM. A later build is a different question. C0146 C0147
One download of the state’s roster. Every state figure is from the download of October 20, 5:19 PM; the series reads every download before it from October 15 on, 34 in all with this one. One session in that span, October 16 at 5 PM, holds no roster file and is not read. A later download is a different question. C0147
Tarrant’s file counts ballots returned, not votes. Each row is a ballot Tarrant records as received back. Nothing here shows what happened to a ballot after Tarrant recorded it.
The state’s roster leaves out the voter’s address. The Election Code requires the early-voting roster to include each voter’s name, address and voter registration number (Election Code 87.121(b)(1)), and requires that roster information to be posted on the Secretary of State’s website (Election Code 87.121(j), (m)). The roster the state posts carries a name, a voter ID and a precinct, and no address. A person on the state’s roster can therefore be matched to Tarrant’s file only by last name, first name and precinct, and that match cannot settle whether two records are one person or two. Two people can share a name and a precinct; one person can be spelled differently on two records.
The state’s roster leaves out the date. The Election Code requires the roster to include the date of voting, or for a mail ballot the date the ballot was mailed to the voter (Election Code 87.121(b)(3)). The roster the state posts carries no date for any voter. Each download lists every voter carried so far, so the state’s record cannot say on which day it recorded a voter; every date in this brief comes from Tarrant’s file or from the time of a download.
The redaction match is by precinct. Tarrant’s redacted rows carry a precinct and nothing that names a voter, so the voters cannot be matched one by one.
County attribution. On the state side, a voter is Tarrant’s when the state’s file reports Tarrant as the county (the reported county, not the registered county).
Early voting in person began October 19, 2026. Every count here is of mail ballots and mail voters only.
Voters are not named. The voter-level lists behind these figures are held separately and are not published.