Programming error miscounts votes in south Texas Election official catches electronic voting maching problem DALLAS — A programming error by a widely used Nebraska-based election system company Tuesday appears to be isolated to Hidalgo County in South Texas, election officials said. The county's top election official discovered the mistake when early voting results in House District 28 put long-shot Constitution Party candidate Ron Avery ahead of popular Democratic incumbent Henry Cuellar by almost 2,000 votes with roughly 2,200 tabulated. "We knew there was no way that could be correct," said Teresa Navarro, Hidalgo County elections administrator. The problem was not...
