The county plans to ID eligible voters and send them registration forms. GOP officials say it’s an end-run around state law.
Texas Republicans are clashing again with the state’s most populous county over voting. This time, they’re criticizing Harris County ’s plan for outreach to eligible but unregistered voters ahead of the registration deadline.
The Harris County proposal – first discussed at a commissioners court meeting on Aug. 6 — had multiple parts. Ellis later told Votebeat he pulled the proposal to improve it, especially “in the effective use of county resources to increase voter registration.” Ellis added that his office will continue to work with the tax assessor’s office “to develop a successful plan for greater registration and participation.”
In addition to turning election duties over to the county clerk’s office and voter registration duties to the county tax assessor-collector, another bill authored by Bettencourtcritical of the county’s failures to follow state-mandated rules and other procedures during its 2021 and 2022 elections, but noted that current officials, who didn’t oversee those elections, have worked to fix the problems. The state will send election inspectors to Harris County in November, the office said.
There are important checks in the system, though. When voter registrars receive voter registration applications, they send them to the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, where they are checked for eligibility against Department of Public Safety and Social Security Administration data. In addition, local voter registrars work with their county district attorney’s office to check citizenship status using responses from jury summons questionnaires.
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