BREAKING NEWS: ORTIZ SAYS BISD ELECTION TOTALS HAVE CHANGED

By Juan Montoya
Poll watchers and candidates in the Brownsville Independent School District elections have been told by Cameron County Elections administrator that the vote totals in the election have changed.
A meeting has been called to address the issue this morning at the Cameron County Elections Office this morning at 8 a.m.
Many BISD observers are saying that the new changes will favor Jose Hector Chirinos, a member of the Butch Barbosa-Minerva Pena-Otis Powers slate who – like Barbosa – was not elected. He, instead, came in behind by four votes to Linda Gill-Martinez.
With Chirinos on the board, the possibility of breaking the existing majority and replacing it with a new one becomes a possibility.
"When we went to check the vote, Roger told us that there were four precincts that hadn't come in as well as the military ballots that hadn't been counted," said a candidate. "The questions is, why not? Were they waiting to see what the results would be so they could pull out the others and change the results. This stinks to high heaven!"