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ARE TEXAS REPUBLICANS ALREADY CHEATING!! WHAT IS GOING ON? 1. Harris County: More than 100,000 voters missing from the statewide display On October 30, Spectrum News reported that Texas's Election Administration Management system, known as TEAM, was displaying approximately 835,000 early votes for Harris County. The county's own election website reported approximately 953,000. That represents a difference of roughly 118,000 voters. The figures were preliminary and may not have reflected precisely identical reporting cutoffs. Nevertheless, the discrepancy was substantial. County election officials described a process in which counties submit data files to the state, receive acknowledgments, and sometimes receive error reports requiring additional information. The reporting indicated that absentee-ballot processing was a particularly significant source of difficulty. Rice University political scientist Mark Jones distinguished these reporting problems from the systems responsible for determining candidate vote totals. That distinction is essential. A voter missing from a statewide turnout display is not necessarily a voter whose ballot has disappeared. But a reporting discrepancy of this magnitude deserves a documented explanation. Source: Spectrum News, October 30, 2026 2. Bexar and Fort Bend: The problem extends beyond one county The Houston Chronicle documented additional discrepancies involving Bexar and Fort Bend counties. In Bexar County, the state's displayed mail-ballot figure was dramatically below the number recorded locally. In Fort Bend County, county-reported in-person turnout substantially exceeded the statewide figure. The examples matter because they involve different voting categories. Mail-ballot reporting requires tracking multiple stages, including receipt, acceptance, rejection, and correction. In-person voting generally follows a different administrative process. If both categories are producing substantial discrepancies, investigators need to determine whether they share a technical cause or reflect separate problems. Fort Bend County provides an important public verification opportunity: its election office publishes downloadable early-voting statistics, including Excel reports. Those records can be compared against state reports using consistent dates and reporting categories.