Harris County DA Kim Ogg sent a letter to Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw asking for the Texas Rangers' assistance on Monday.
after receiving a referral from the Texas Secretary of State's office.
The allegations include paper shortages at 23 polling locations, releasing early voting results before polls closed at 8 p.m., the improper disposition of damaged ballots and inadequate instructions on how poll workers were to manage instances in which the two-page ballots were not completely or adequately scanned into machines.
"With DA Ogg following in the footsteps of Gov. Abbott, Attorney General Ken Paxton, and the , she is enabling election deniers and QAnon conspiracy theorists," Harris County Democratic Party Chair Odus Evbagharu said."We cannot be helping amplify false rhetoric in the battle to preserve our democracy, freedom, and rights.
of criminal misconduct, according to a ProPublica investigation published earlier this month. In one prominent case, Paxton attempted in 2021 to prosecute Dana DeBeauvoir, at the time serving as Travis County Clerk, for obstructing a poll watcher; a grand jury declined to indict her. "They are problems that are best addressed by actually identifying the reason for the problem, and finding a solution to make sure that voters don't face these problems again," Slattery said."The solution is not to prosecute and jail election officials who are just doing their jobs, even if they could do their jobs better."
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