Primary day in Texas did not start out well for Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg. The incumbent Democrat showed up to her polling location around 8am at Love Park Community Center in the Houston Heights only to be told that someone with her name had already voted, according to the Houston Chronicle. The clerical error—her partner’s vote had been mistakenly logged as her own—was eventually resolved and Ogg went about her day.

But this snafu ended up being the least of her problems.

As millions of Texans and Americans across the country cast their vote in the Super Tuesday primary elections on March 5, a significant portion of Democrats in Harris County decided that they had had enough of the DA’s two-term tenure. Ogg lost reelection last night against challenger Sean Teare in a staggering 25 to 75 percent defeat.

While the margin of the upset made more than one Houstonian’s jaw drop, the loss itself was less surprising. Ogg was facing a tough reelection against a well-funded opponent, Teare, a former prosecutor who previously served in Ogg’s office. The incumbent DA has faced criticism for using her office to pursue criminal investigations against county officials and staff who she had been publicly and privately fighting with, including County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and aides of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo.

“Don’t cross her,” began the headline of a September Chronicle investigation. Ogg maintains she was simply doing her job. Others saw the probes as an intimidation tactic.

Ogg’s management style and dysfunction in her office, which has also been under fire for its case losses and backlogs, came up often in the primary race. The DA lost the support of a chunk of her own party: Last December, the Harris County Democratic Party passed a resolution, by a vote of 129 to 61, admonishing Ogg for not representing the values of the party. Elected as a criminal justice reformer in 2016, she has since been criticized by many Democrats who feel she has walked back progressive promises, notably on bail reform.

Teare messaged himself as more aligned with current Democratic ideals and keenly aware of Ogg’s shortcomings as a leader through his first-hand experience working as a prosecutor in the DA’s office between 2017 and 2023. He cruised to victory on Tuesday and will face off against Republican Dan Simons on November 5.

Of course, Ogg wasn’t the only catastrophic loser of Super Tuesday. Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley continued her painful losing streak to former President Donald Trump, who’s now amassed 995 delegates to her 89. She dropped out Wednesday morning.

On the winners side, President Joe Biden is easily riding an unenthusiastic wave to the Democratic nomination. Mainland Americans learned of the existence of a man named Jason Palmer, who won the American Samoa primary, apparently. US Representative Colin Allred of Dallas will be the Democrat to challenge senator Ted Cruz, taking up the (narrowly failed) battle Beto O’Rourke waged in 2018.

And like in the Houston mayoral election last November, the biggest loser of all was democracy itself. A pitiful 6 percent of registered voters in Harris County came out to vote on March 5, adding to the measly 8 percent who voted early.