Harris County's elections administrator announced her resignation in the wake of a 2022 primary marred by vote-counting delays and thousands of missed ballots. | via HoustonPubMedia
Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria on primary election night, March 1, 2022. Longoria's office has been criticized for delays in unofficial vote counts and failing to count 10,000 mail-in ballots.Harris County Election Administrator Isabel Longoria will resign in July, she announced at Tuesday’s commissioners court meeting.
“I remain committed to the office and its mission, and hope to aid in defeating harmful rhetoric to ensure successful elections in the future,” Longoria said. "In my opinion, the repetitive dysfunction of the unelected and frankly unaccountable County Elections Administrator Longoria is simply unbelievable," Ramsey told Houston Public Media on Monday."Clearly, she is not qualified, or clearly, does not understand what it takes to run an election of this magnitude, or maybe of any magnitude."
Harris County Judge Hidalgo, Longoria and other Democrats have focused much of their criticism on Senate Bill 1, a law passed by Republican legislators that has been blasted as an attempt at voter suppression. Much of Tuesday’s meeting focused on problems with SB 1, and confusion the law may have caused.
Ramsey also proposed an audit of the 2022 primary election results, and called for the Elections Commission to request the Secretary of State appoint a monitor to oversee any solutions the commission proposes in the aftermath of last week's vote count drama.
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