GOP chair: If Harris County could run good elections, the state wouldn't have to step in

Cindy Siegler, head of the Harris County GOP, says the Texas Legislature was right to get...

Harris County Republican Party Chair Cindy Siegel speaks with Gail Stanart during the Harris County GOP's election night party at the Federal Grill in Houston, TX on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.In 2020 I was elected to serve as the Harris County Republican Party Chairman. Part of my responsibility is overseeing the Republican primary elections and recruiting Republican election workers for general elections.

Proponents of the office’s creation will argue that it was formed to take politics out of running our elections and professionalize the system as a whole. But unfortunately, after multiple election blunders, what has occurred is the exact opposite. Harris County has county-wide voting, so many observers have shrugged this off with the sentiment,"It’s no big deal because they could always go to another poll.”, who went to two different polling locations, both of which ran out of paper, resulting in her being unable to cast her vote before polls closed. Perrin is just one voter out of who knows how many who weren’t afforded their constitutional right to vote because the ballot paper ran out or the myriad of other issues on Nov. 8.

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