Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson on Thursday announced post-election audits for the Nov. 5 election. The partial manual counts will check the results of designated races through a hand-count process.
Nelson has selected the presidential and U.S. Senate races. Counties will also be required to audit at least one county-level race.
Counties will manually count all the races in at least 1% of their election precincts. Nelson is also requiring them to do a partial manual count in three additional precincts or polling places that are randomly selected by the county.
They have until three days after the election to begin the process. The deadline for finishing the manual count audit is 21 days after the election.