In Bexar County, for instance, only eight people voted by mail, according to the state’s site. In reality, according to Michele Carew, the county’s election administrator, nearly 18,000 people have cast ballots by mail.

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In person vote totals have also lagged. Election officials in Fort Bend County – one of the state’s most competitive districts – reported more than 75,000 ballots cast in person as of Friday morning while the state’s website shows just over 41,000.

Local election officials said they are still confident in the state’s election night reporting system, which functioned without any issues or delay in the March primary, but are frustrated the turnout numbers aren’t being accurately reported.

“It’s not that we haven’t entered the data, it’s just not reflecting here,” said Kristin Miles, the election administrator in Bastrop County and the president of the Texas Association of County Election Officials, referring to the Secretary of State’s portal.

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        When Trump won in '16 and '24, he claimed there was voter fraud that keep him from an even bigger landslide

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        Actually, I think it will be the other way.

        They’d say that in spite of massive election fraud, the public came through for them and that the numbers would have been much higher but they couldn’t get all the fraud.

        Then it leads into them pushing for more ICE murders, beatings and removing all human protections.

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          Yeah, that gives them a pretext to harass the Dems afterwards. Expect another wave of malicious prosecutions on Trumped-up charges.

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        Even elections they win they say they should’ve won by more. Before his first term officially started, that was among the first things Trump was already peddling even after Hillary conceded.