Dallas County elections administrator Heider Garcia stared at a massive projection screen showing a map speckled with 64 green dots, one for each of the county’s polling centers. It was the afternoon of February 20, the first day of early voting for next week’s primary election. Garcia had been in a windowless conference room since 6:40 a.m., overseeing his team of some fifty employees. A handful of polling centers had opened late because of minor snafus; at one center, the Republican and Democratic election judges had gotten into an argument. Otherwise, everything appeared to be going smoothly. Around 5,700 voters had cast ballots so far, with the highest turnout in the 65-to-74 age group.Suddenly, the dot representing the South Garland Branch Library turned from green…
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