Elections in Texas’ most populous county are facing court scrutiny in a civil trial. tx politics kprc2 click2hou
was stolen by President Joe Biden’s backers. Election denialism is likely to make its way into the Texas trial, which is expected to last two weeks and be decided by David Peeples, a visiting judge from San Antonio.
Elections in the nation’s third-most populous county — and one with large numbers of Hispanic and Black voters — have been scrutinized for several years now. Some polling locations on Nov. 8 opened late or had long lines due to problems with voting machines. During the March 2022 primary, there was a shortage of poll workers and about 10,000 mail ballots weren’t counted the day of the election.
Kevin Haynes, one of Craft’s lawyers, said during his opening statement that Lunceford’s attorneys are using a “kitchen sink” approach to make numerous allegations and that they are relying on “so-called experts” who have no experience running elections, no training on the Texas election code and who work for the county's GOP party.He accused Lunceford and her supporters of pushing unfounded conspiracy theories to overturn the election.
“They want to take those mistakes and suggest without additional evidence that those mistakes are enough to justify overturning the results of an election," said David Levine, one of the report’s authors and a former local election official in Idaho. He's now a senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy.
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