With just two readers to go through more than 780 voting machine drives, it will take Harris County more than six hours to produce a complete count, assuming no problems arise.
It takes around one minute for the county's equipment to read a digital drive that contains a polling location's vote count — and election workers will be receiving a drive from each of the county's 782 polling locations.Key state and local races that your vote will decide in the November 8 midterm election
"The reality is that we will not have all of the final results tabulated before midnight," Tatum added."The math simply does not lend itself to allow us to do that." "If you have multiple readers going, you want to be sure that the operators that are operating those readers are following the processes and procedures. So, if we have the opportunity to add in an additional reader, we'll do that. But right now, our plan is to read two at a time. They are expensive equipment. It's about control and accuracy in the process."