Ex-journalist’s ‘correction’: Are Tarrant’s nonexistent mail-in ballots in Harris County?
When her assertion that Tarrant County was sending out 7 million mail-in ballots turned out to be false, former CBS correspondent Lara Logan issued a “correction.”
Logan had claimed on Wednesday that Texas was “in real danger” of mass voter fraud by Tarrant County sending out 7 million mail-in ballots. As of Thursday, the county of 2.1 million people had sent out just over 5,800 mail-in ballots.
But apparently Logan’s problem was with the geography, not the math.
“Correction: This should have read Harris County, Houston. NOT Tarrant County, Dallas,” Logan said Thursday in a post on X that cited her original untrue and unsourced claim.
The Star-Telegram confirmed that Harris County’s mail-in ballot numbers are also nowhere near 7 million.
As of Tuesday, the county of 4.8 million people and around 2.6 million registered voters had sent out 48,633 mail-in ballots and 8,305 military overseas ballots, according to Duha Nguyen, deputy director of compliance for the Harris County Elections Department.
“I have no idea what she’s talking about with 7 million ballots,” Nguyen said. “We don’t even have 7 million registered voters in Harris County.”
As of Thursday, her office had received and approved 50,156 mail-in ballots and 8,525 military overseas ballots. Of those, 1,515 have been returned.
The data is publicly available on the Harris County Elections website.
The Star-Telegram reached out to Logan for comment via the contact form on her website, but did not receive a response.
Logan, who has won numerous journalism awards, including Emmys, was a correspondent on the popular CBS News show “60 Minutes” until a 2013 story she did on the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic and intelligence offices in Benghazi, Libya, was discredited. A source she cited was found to have given her an inaccurate account, and Logan aired his story despite knowing that he had given a different version of events to federal investigators.
