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Politics
Josephine Peterson

Dallas County Republicans question voting machines, lobby for paper ballots

DALLAS — The Dallas County Republican Party says its top legislative priority this session is lobbying for the return of the paper ballot.

Local Republicans say that the electronic voting system currently being used may have counted more votes than were actually cast in the 2022 election, despite the Dallas County Elections Department’s saying that is not the case.

The GOP points to those votes that rolled in after polls closed and to 188 “phantom voter” errors the state found in the 2020 election as proof that the county’s electronic voting system can’t be trusted.

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