Grayson County approved its Nov. 3 election order Aug. 25; Cooke County posted its own

Grayson County commissioners approved a corrected order for the Nov. 3, 2026, general election on Aug. 25, according to the meeting video. Cooke County also published its own November paperwork, including an election order for county officers and a public notice of equipment testing.

The vote has since taken place. Grayson County's election website now lists unofficial results. The Texas secretary of state set Nov. 6 through Nov. 17 as the window for local canvass, the step that makes returns official.

At the Aug. 25 meeting, an elections official presented the revised order and told the court it would be posted online after approval. A commissioner thanked the presenter for making corrections, and the meeting record does not name which changes were made. Commissioner Josh Marr moved approval, Commissioner Art Arthur seconded, and the motion carried.

In Cooke County, the county election page lists appointments of election judges, the early voting ballot board and the central counting station, along with the equipment-testing notice. The page separately links sample ballots for Gainesville and for Valley View ISD.

Grayson County's election page also carries notices for election-worker training, testing of its automatic tabulating equipment and testing of electronic pollbooks. The secretary of state's election calendar says a new state law, SB 2166, required public logic-and-accuracy and tabulation testing on Sept. 16, with online notice at least 48 hours ahead. Pollbooks had to be tested at least 48 hours before voting began. Under the state's 2026 dates, voter registration closed Oct. 5, and early voting ran Oct. 19 through Oct. 30.

The election followed a change in how Grayson County voters mark ballots. Commissioners voted unanimously on Aug. 12, 2025, to spend about $403,540 on pollbooks, printers and related equipment for hand-marked, ballot-on-demand voting starting that November, according to a county document. The same document says the county kept its DS200 scanners to count ballots and its accessible ballot-marking devices for voters with disabilities. Hand-marked ballots did not mean hand counting.

Countywide polling lets registered voters use any Election Day location in their county, and counties with successful-program status do not need new secretary of state approval for each election, according to the state's program page. Grayson County first used countywide Election Day voting centers in November 2013, with 22 locations compared with 17 polling places in the November 2011 constitutional amendment election, according to a secretary of state report. Texas designated the program successful on Jan. 14, 2014.

The same state page lists Collin County's successful designation as dating to 2013 and Grayson County's to 2014. Both appear on the approved list for Nov. 3, 2026, and Fannin County appears among the 2026 participants. The secretary of state's reports counted 42 counties with successful-program status in the 2015-2016 cycle and 96 in the 2023-2024 cycle, when Cameron, Comanche and Uvalde counties were identified as new participants for the November 2024 general election.