NEW BRAUNFELS — What are the odds?
Let's just say it's the proverbial "astronomical."
Comal County elections officials noticed an extreme oddity after the final votes were tallied in
Tuesday's general election.
County Judge Danny Scheel received 18,181 votes in his victory over Lois Duggan.
Republican state Sen. Jeff Wentworth also got 18,181 votes in Comal County in his win over Democrat Joseph Sullivan and Libertarian Rex Black.
To make matters even stranger, Comal County also gave Republican Carter Casteel exactly 18,181 votes in her victory over Democrat Virgil Yanta in the race for District 73 state representative.
"Isn't that the weirdest thing?" County Clerk Joy Streater asked. "We noticed it right away, but it is just a big coincidence. I checked the precincts and the numbers are all different in every precinct for each of them. They just coincidentally all add up to 18,181."
Scheel hadn't noticed the anomaly.
"I'll be darned," he said when it was pointed out to him. "Look at that. That's weird."