Letter about voting integrity prompts response from Tarrant County elections office

Tarrant County’s elections office took to Twitter Tuesday afternoon to respond to a letter being circulated about voting in Fort Worth’s Stop Six.

The letter comes from someone who claims to be with a group investigating the integrity of local elections. The letter author claimed the group had seen “anomalies” with data in the elections and wanted to confirm with the receiver that they had actually voted at a voting center in Stop Six.

“There are an unusually high number of people that live in our neighborhood, traveling to the Stop 6 area to vote when there are many Early Voting sites between here and there,” the letter reads.

The letter included the receiver’s name, address, in-person early voting date and in-person early voting location.

Registered voters can vote at any voting center in Tarrant County during both early voting through Nov. 4 and on Election Day Nov. 8.

In a Twitter thread, the elections office said that “some voters” are receiving a letter like the one circulating. The thread reiterated that residents can vote at any voting center in the county.

“Choosing a location far from your home DOES NOT indicate an ‘anomaly,’ it just means it was convenient for the voter,” the thread reads.

The thread also said each voter in Tarrant County has to show their ID before checking in to vote and sign the poll book before they can have access to a ballot. The thread also states clerks who are recruited from lists provided by both the Republican and Democratic parties are present at the polls.

Elections administrator Heider Garcia did not return a phone call or text for comment on the letter early Tuesday afternoon.