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Counting Day: How Your 2026 Vote Gets Counted · Episode 1

Day Three to Day Fourteen

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Before anyone tells you the 2026 Texas vote was stolen, read the law that sets the count. Early voting ballot boards count the ballots. Commissioners courts canvass them between the third and eleventh day after Election Day. The 'counting window' experts warn about is written in the statute, and so is the record of what the attorney general and the Legislature did to Texas election administration.

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Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 3:04 The Mechanism 7:15 The Despin 13:27 The Steelman Corner 15:32 The Numbers

Short cuts

part · 191s
Hours and days. How many days, exactly?
part · 176s
No single party works it ALONE.
part · 153s
It opens on the third day. This November, it closes on the fourteenth.
hook · 117s
Not one of these releases announces a conviction.
hook · 114s
Latinx: 60. Black: 7. White: 4. Unknown: 22.
hook · 147s
Minimum population: four million.
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