The sites—First Baptist Church The Colony, for precincts 2084, 2085, 2086, and Castle Hills North Community Center, for precincts 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096—were open until 9 p.m. March 1, according to a March 1 county news release.
The county could not release any Republic voting results, including early voting, until the last voter casts a ballot at the two polling locations, according to the news release.
Electronic poll book data needed to be reset, which caused the delay. During the down time of the electronic poll books, election judges continued to allow people to vote through additional verification by election administration headquarters, according to the release.
“Denton County uses paper ballots, which creates a system to track all votes and maintain the integrity of the election,” Denton County Elections Administrator Frank Phillips said in the release. “This did not impact the other 129 election polling locations.”
