Saturday’s Dallas City Council election results have been totaled and a number of ballots were thrown out after possible voter fraud delayed the process earlier this week.
Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole said that 700 ballots were presented to a signature verification committee and then passed along to the election board. After reviewing the ballots, 98 of them were rejected.
“The signature on the application or the signature on the ballot did not match and we couldn’t get verification of the signature,” Pippins-Poole said regarding the discarded ballots.
An investigation was opened by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office Monday amid complaints that residents in district 6 and district 4 were receiving mail in ballots when they didn’t request them. Poole said the ballots that were thrown out came from within and beyond those districts.
The elections department will now turn the ballots over to the District Attorney for further investigation.
“All of the election materials will be sealed up and returned to the District Attorney’s Office,” said Pippins-Poole.
Investigators will work to determine the origin of the potentially fraudulent mail in ballots.
