>> STEVE SPRIESTER: NEW VOTING MACHINES MAY BE ADDING UP TO SLOW ELECTION RESULTS IN BEXAR
COUNTY TODAY’S ELECTION WAS
LARGELY ABOUT AMENDMENTS TO THE
STATE CONSTITUTION AND RACES IN
TOWNS LIKE CONVERSE AND
CASTLE HILLS. SO WHAT EXACTLY
IS LEADING TO THE SLOWDOWN ARE
JAPHANIE GRAY JOINS US LIVE
WITH THE COUNTING CONTINUES
TONIGHT.
>> BEXAR COUNTY ELECTIONS
ADMINISTRATOR OFFICE.
>> YES, THAT’S RIGHT THE BEXAR COUNTY ELECTIONS ADMINISTRATOR SAYS ACTUALLY EVERYTHING IS
GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN AS SHE
SAYS THIS IS ALL A WIN-WIN
SITUATION SHE TOLD THE WORKERS
IN THE ELECTION OFFICIALS AT
THE SITE TO TAKE THEIR TIME
AS THEY WENT THROUGH THE VOTING
BECAUSE OF COURSE USING THIS
NEW ELECTRONIC VOTING THE CC
WANT EVERYTHING
TO BE.
>> PERFECT NOW JACKIE CALLAHAN
ALSO SAYS THE MORE PEOPLE
TURNED OUT TO VOTE TODAY THAN
THE PREVIOUS YEAR. SHE SAID WE
HAD ABOUT 45 TO 50,000 PEOPLE
VOTE BY THE END OF THE DAY THAT
A COMPARISON THE 2017 LAKES
WERE ONLY 18 PEOPLE SHOWED UP
TO VOTE THAT WAS THE FIRST
ELECTION THAT THE NEW VOTING
MACHINES WERE USE RIGHT HERE
TODAY AND THE SEAS HAVE
ELECTRONIC SCREENS WITH THE
VOTES ARE RECORDED ON PAPER
BALLOTS RATHER THAN AN
INDIVIDUAL VOTING BOOTH THAT
WAS I DIDN’T FIT INTO A SCENE
THAT WILL ACTUALLY TABULATE THE
VOTES AGAIN. KELLY HAS SAID
EVERYTHING IS GOING ACCORDING
TO PLAN THE JUST TAKING IT A
LITTLE SLOWER TO SAY EVERYTHING
IS INPUT CORRECTLY. NO RESULTS
FROM ABOUT 160 OF THE 284
VOTING CENTERS HAVE ALREADY
BEEN TALLIED JAPHANIE GRAY KSAT
12 NEWS.
>> STEVE SPRIESTER: THANK YOU JAPHANIE LEGAL TROUBLES HAVEN’T KEPT HIM OUT OF OFFICE, IT
APPEARS CIBOLO IS STANDING
BEHIND THEIR CURRENT MAYOR
DESPITE CONTROVERSY YOU MAY
REMEMBER STANCE TOSH BOYLE WAS
ARRESTED AFTER REAPPLYING TO
RUN FOR MAYOR IN
THIS ELECTION.
>> ISIS ROMERO: AND FAILING TO
LIST IN 1998 FELONY
DRUG CONVICTION. WHILE THERE
WERE ARGUMENTS OF THE
CONVICTION MADE HIM INELIGIBLE
TO HOLD OFFICE
BOYLE ARGUED STATE LAW SAYS A
CONVICTED FELON
COULD SERVE IF THEY WERE QUOTE
RELEASED FROM THE RESULTING
DISABILITIES
END QUOTE.
>> STEVE SPRIESTER: THAT PHRASE
LED TO SOME CONFUSION BUT
ALLOWED BOYLE TO SERVE OUT THE
REST OF
HIS TERM AND HIS CONTINUED RUN
FOR THIS ELECTION, LET’S TAKE A
LOOK AT THE RESULTS RIGHT NOW
STANCE TOSH BOIL WITH 49% OF
THE VOTE. GLENDA HENRY WITH 28%
AND KARA LATIMER WAS ABLE TO
GET 22%.
ON TO THE CITY OF CONVERSE
WHICH HAS SEEN SOME CONTROVERSY
LATELY VOTERS WAITING TO SEE
WHO WILL BECOME THEIR NEXT
MAYOR WAR WILL BE A FAMILIAR
FACE THE NIGHT TEAM’S PATTY
SANTOS HAS BEEN MONITORING THIS
RACE PATTY, THE INCUMBENT TOOK
THE EARLY VOTE LEAD.
>> YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT WE WERE WATCHING ALL NIGHT WAITING FOR THAT, BUT WE KNOW THAT ALL 3
CANDIDATES ARE DOING THEIR OWN.
QUIET WATCH PARTIES AT HOME
OR EVEN. FOR MAYOR AL SUAREZ
RIGHT HERE IN THE PARKING LOT
OF
CITY HALL AND OF COURSE AS YOU
SAID HE’S LEADING WITH ABOUT
67% OF THE VOTES TONIGHT SUAREZ
TOOK THE EARLY VOTE WITH
600 BALLOTS ON
HIS BEHALF AND HE JUST
CELEBRATED HIS 12 YEARS WHO HAS
THE MAYOR OF
THIS CITY. HIS CHALLENGERS
COUNCILWOMAN KATE SILVAS
INTEMPERATE JAMES TRAILING
RIGHT NOW STILL THIS HAS ABOUT
20% OF THE VOTE.
JAMES HOLDING 14% WITH ABOUT
39% OF THE
PRECINCTS REPORTED NOW STILL
WAS RECENTLY BECAME THE CENTER
FOCUS AFTER SHE WAS BRIEFLY
OUSTED FROM OFFICE FOR AN
ALLEGED
TARTAR VIOLATION. BUT A JUDGE
ORDERED ALLOWED HER TO KEEP HER
SEAT UNTIL A HEARING CAN TAKE
PLACE TOMORROW AND AS TRADITION
HAS IT TO CANDIDATES REALLY
STAY QUIET ABOUT ALL
OF THIS UNTIL THE FINAL NUMBERS
COME IN TO WE’RE GOING TO
CONTINUE TO WATCH THIS AND OF
COURSE YOU CAN WHAT’S UP WITH
US ON KSAT DOT COM AU SENT BACK
TO YOU.
>> THANK
YOU PATTY. ANOTHER RACE
INVOLVING A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER
BOOTED FROM OFFICE THE CASTLE
HILLS PLACE 3 SEAT WAS VACATED
BY SYLVIA GONZALES EARLIER
THIS YEAR. SHE WAS REMOVED
AFTER IT WAS DETERMINED HER
SWEARING-IN CEREMONY WASN’T
PROPERLY DONE. SHE WAS ALSO
ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH AN
ALLEGED SCHEME TARGETING THE
CASTLE HILLS
CITY MANAGER. BUT THE TAMPERING
CHARGE HAS SINCE BEEN DISMISSED
FOR INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.
NOW THERE ARE 2 CANDIDATES
LOOKING TO TAKE OVER THE PLACE
THREE-SEAT KURT MAY IS RUNNING
AGAINST JANET BAKER AS YOU CAN
SEE HERE
MAY HAS AN OVERWHELMING 80% OF
THE VOTE. WHILE BAKER
TOOK HOME. >> STEVE SPRIESTER: 20% OF THE VOTE TO TURNING TO THE RACE FOR
MAYOR IN SCHERTZ THESE NUMBERS
ARE FROM THE GUADALUPE COUNTY
ELECTION SITE 3 CANDIDATES IN
THIS RACE, RALPH GUTIERREZ WITH
52% OF
THE VOTE. CARL C DOUGLAS ABLE
TO GET 29 WHICH IS BEING 19% OF
THE VOTE. AND WRITE IN
CANDIDATE SAID RICK EDWARDS
ACTUALLY HAD 29% OF THE
VOTE TONIGHT OVER IN WINDCREST
THE RACE BETWEEN THE INCUMBENT
AND A FAMILIAR FACE
INCUMBENT DAN REESE WAS ABLE TO
GRAB 56% OF THE VOTE. ALAN
BAXTER THE FORMER MAYOR AND HE
GAINED 44 PERCENT OF
THE VOTE. OUR ELECTION COVERAGE
OVERALL 10 STATE AMENDMENTS
CONTINUES ONLINE JUST HEAD OVER
TO KSAT DOT COM. YOU CAN FIND