NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Denton County Elections Administrator Frank Phillips said Monday his county is seeing an unusually large number of people surrendering their mail-in ballot at their polling location so they can vote in-person instead, and are also hand-delivering their mail ballots to his office.

Tarrant County Elections Administrator Heider Garcia said the county is also seeing some people surrendering mail ballots to vote in person.

Neither had specific numbers so far.

CBS 11 has not heard back yet from Dallas and Collin Counties about this situation.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, more Texans requested mail-in ballots, but concerns over the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to deliver the ballots on-time has some people changing their minds.

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