The Texas Senate voted for a bill that would enable the state to call for election do-overs in only left-leaning Harris County if there are ballot shortages. If signed into law, the bill is expected to face legal challenges.
Texas’ secretary of state is Jane Nelson, a former Republican state senator who was nominated by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
"There is no reason, there is no excuse why we can’t competently run our elections and have adequate ballot paper,"Voting rights advocates have raised concerns about the legislation. -TV, a CBS affiliate, reported that it"discovered 121 voting centers did not initially receive enough ballot paper to cover voter turnout." Some Republican lawmakers have cited that 121 number.found a similar number of vote centers that did not initially receive enough ballots, but some of those locations received deliveries of more ballots before a shortage occurred.
The Facebook post referred to the"state’s largest Democratic county." There are different ways to measure that term, but among theA Facebook post said"Texas Republicans just voted to give a Republican appointee the power to single-handedly CANCEL election results in the state’s largest Democratic county."
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