For a first time, all in all, things went smoothly.
That’s the opinion of Hays County’s Elections Administrator Jennifer Anderson.

The election on Nov. 5 marked not only the first time voters could cast their ballot at any Voting Center rather than having to report to the precinct in which they live, it also was the debut of new voting machines, replacing those that had been in use since 2004.

“Everybody loves the new machines far more than they did the old ones,” Anderson s...