Evelyn Brown, a 63-year-old longtime Fort Worth voter, said she had a problem voting this week.
She had gone to the Southwest Community Center on Welch Avenue and had cast a straight party ticket.
When she reviewed the summary, she saw that her choice in the U.S. Senate race — which pits Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz against Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke — had flipped to the candidate in the other party.
She spent seven or eight minutes trying to move back to change the candidate in that race, but wasn't successful.
"I'm accustomed to using the booth," she said. "I used the keys that let you move forward and back. It didn't move at all. It was stuck."
So she called the election judge over who ended up calling the Tarrant County Elections Office.
In the end, the election judge had to at least temporarily put that machine out of service. He moved Brown to a different machine, where she said she was able to cast a vote for all the candidates of her choice.
Notes are posted at voting booths from election officials stressing that voters need to check the summary page "before casting your ballot."
