Texas Republicans Are WRONGFULLY Changing the Rules
May 6, 2023
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as posted by the channelThe Texas Republicans are poised to enact a new law that gives the governor-appointed Secretary of State the ability to overturn elections in the state's biggest county. Senator Nina Turner and Max Burns break it down on Unbossed.
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The Texas state government is poised to enact a new law giving the governor-appointed Secretary of State the ability to overturn elections in the state's biggest county.
The legislation, SB-1993, passed in the Texas State Senate on Tuesday by a vote of 19-12. According to the text of the bill, the Secretary of State, a position appointed by Republican Governor Gregg Abbott and currently held by Jane Nelson, would have the authority to throw election results in counties wherein 2 percent or more of the polling locations ran out of ballot paper for more than an hour. In the event that an election was thrown out, a new one would then be held.
The specific parameters of the bill were inspired by incidents in Harris County during the 2022 midterm elections, in which 26 out of the county's 782 polling locations were affected, according to the Houston Chronicle. Despite the relatively small number of locations affected, the issue was seized upon by Texas Republicans, some of whom claimed that the shortages cost them their races, ultimately leading to the push for legislation that resulted in SB-1993.
"There is no reason, there is no excuse why we can't competently run our elections and have adequate ballot paper," Republican state Senator Mayes Middleton, one of the bill's co-authors, said, according to the Houston Chronicle.
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