By JONATHAN ZWEYGARDT
Hays Post

The Ellis County Clerk’s office will hold a recount Tuesday after a clerical oversight on Election Night.

After the Ellis County Commission gave approval for a recount at Monday night’s meeting, a board will recount approximately 800 paper ballots, according to Ellis County Clerk Donna Maskus.

The error was caused when the ballot count on one machine was not cleared from advanced voting to Election Night.

Maskus said the recount is only designed to get the correct number of votes on the paper ballot count.

She said she believed all of the write-in votes were caught by the two, three-member resolution boards and that any ballot that did not run through the machine was counted.

She said her office will make changes to procedures to ensure it does not happen again.

Maskus said she is confident it will not change the outcome of any of the races.

The commission will hold a special meeting on Wednesday morning at 7:30 a.m. to canvass the results.