Texas secretary of state to send inspectors to observe vote counting in Harris County

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The Texas GOP hates Harris County. The Texas GOP voter suppression law outlawed several innovations used by Harris County in 2020 to help voter turnout out including 24-hour voting and drive through voting. At TFG's request, there is some bogus audit of Harris Counting voting and now the GOP Texas Secretary of State is sending inspectors to observe voting in Harris County.

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The Texas Secretary of State's Office has told the state’s most populous county that it will send inspectors there to observe vote counting during the November election.

In a letter Tuesday, the director of the secretary of state’s forensic audit division, Chad Ennis, told the elections administrator in Harris County, Clifford Tatum, that an audit of the county had found “serious breaches of proper elections records management” in the handling of mobile ballot boxes in the 2020 general election.

Harris County is home to Houston and leans Democratic. The letter came less than a week before the start of early voting in the state.

Ennis said preliminary findings in the secretary of state’s audit include “at least 14 locations where chain-of-custody documentation is lacking at best and missing at worst.”

In light of those findings, Ennis wrote that the secretary of state’s office will provide “a contingent of inspectors” to the county to “perform randomized checks on election records” and “observe the handling and counting of ballots and electronic media.”.....

The review in Texas was launched last year after former President Donald Trump pushed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for an examination of the 2020 election results in the state, which Trump won handily. The secretary of state’s office announced hours later that it had begun reviews in Dallas and Harris counties, the two largest Democratic counties, and Tarrant and Collin counties, the two largest Republican ones.

Part of the GOP voter suppression law was increased powers for poll watchers and the Harris County GOP has recruited a ton of poll watchers. This stunt appears to be designed to disrupt the vote in Harris County

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1. The Texas Civil Rights Project thinks that this plan is bogus

The Texas Civil Rights Project does a good job of protecting the vote in Texas

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2. This is an act of war. Feds need to send troops.

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5. Judge Hidalgo sends a request for federal election monitors.

Judge Hidalgo agrees with you (BTW Judge Hidalgo is a very very bright lady)

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3. Sounds like targeting. nt

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4. The Houston Mayor, the County Judge and the County Attorney

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