If enacted, the bill would allow the sec. of state to toss out election results in the state's largest county and call a new vote if there is 'good cause' to believe that at least two percent of polling places ran out of usable ballots during voting hours.
and Clifford Tatum, its election administrator, over the administration of last year's election, and numerous Republicans also challenged their losses and called for the election to be redone. During the election, a legal battle arose over whether to extend voting hours at Harris County’s polling places after several locations had issues, including ballot paper shortages and late openings.
"We had 253 counties that had no issues, really, with ballot paper. We had one that did," Middleton said Monday in a speech on the Senate floor."This is an important accountability tool." State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, also a Democrat, said in criticizing the GOP bill that redoing an election could cost tens of millions of dollars.
Allegations of election mismanagement and fraud from conservative candidates and their supporters have become increasingly common in the wake of former President Donald Trump's baseless claims of voter fraud over his 2020 election loss.
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