If the bill is enacted, it would allow the secretary of state to toss out election results in the state's largest county and call a new vote if there is 'good cause' to believe that at least 2% of polling places ran out of ballots during voting hours.
and Clifford Tatum, its election administrator, over the administration of last year's election, and numerous Republicans also challenged their losses and called for the election to be redone. During the election, a legal battle arose over whether to extend voting hours at Harris County’s polling places after several locations had issues, including ballot paper shortages and late openings.
"We had 253 counties that had no issues, really, with ballot paper. We had one that did," Middleton said Monday in a speech on the Senate floor. "This is an important accountability tool."State Sen. Borris Miles, a Democrat who represents part of Harris County, acknowledged that the county had problems with election administration but said some of the claims of mismanagement were “more conspiracy than fact.
"I completely agree that no polling place should run out of paper," Eckhardt said. "But the bill has no requirement that the blunder must have had, or even probably had, any effect on the outcome of the election.", which was managed by Tatum’s predecessor and took place at the height of the Covid pandemic, found that Harris County had "very serious issues" in its handling of electronic media. But it did not find evidence of fraud or intentional disenfranchisement.
Mimi Marziani, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and a former president of the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit group that advocates for voter rights, said the bill was a "partisan power grab" over Harris County.
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Texas Senate passes bill to allow secretary of state to overturn Harris County electionsIf enacted, the bill would allow the sec. of state to toss out election results in the state's largest county and call a new vote if there is 'good cause' to believe that at least two percent of polling places ran out of usable ballots during voting hours.
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