The notice was the agency’s quick fix for a glitch in its widely used Hart eSlate voting machines. Without such a safeguard, public confidence in elections diminishes.”The issue, she said, impacts 5.1 million Texas voters, at a minimum. As a result, the office has provided additional signs and held training and annual election law seminars for Texas election administrators with voting machines. Since the Help America Vote Act of 2002, approximately 200 Texas counties purchased voting machines; dozens have since updated their equipment, Taylor said. Of the 254 Texas counties, 82 use the Hart eSlate machines.

Source: Washington Post October 29, 2018 19:30 UTC