Harris County is the largest in the country to use electronic machines that don’t create a paper record, and current voting machines haven’t been updated in more than 20 years.

New voting machine are shown at the Harris County Election Technology Center, 11525 Todd St., Wednesday, March 24, 2021 in Houston. A ballot is printed and inserted into the separate machine, ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — With just over a month to go before the start of early voting in Texas, the state’s largest county continued preparations to host its first-ever joint primary.

Early voting begins October 24th and ends November 4th. Early Voting for #Election2022 will begin in just 👆 week! 👉 Harris County Elections will host 99 Early Voting locations across # ...

Harris County early voters are seeing new voting machines and the longest ballot in the nation with 90 to 103 selections to make. Prepare to spend extra time at the polls.

Harris County Election Administrator Clifford Tatum said he would get ... One location opened almost 4.5 hours tardy after officials said a key had been misplaced that accessed the voting machines.

In last November’s general election, Harris County had to extend voting for an hour after various polling places had malfunctioning voting machines, paper ballot shortages and long waiting periods.

He noted that voting in the nation’s third-largest county — home to 4.8 million people — was plagued by understaffing, broken voting machines and paper ballot shortages, even though turnout ...