TX Senate Passes Bill To Nullify Blue County’s Elections

The Houston Chronicle reports:

The Texas Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to allow Gov. Greg Abbott precedent-setting power to overturn elections in Harris County, in order to punish local officials for running out of ballot paper at some polling sites last year.

The legislation, which passed the Senate 19-12, would give Abbott’s appointed secretary of state the authority to order an entirely new election in Harris County if the county ever again runs out of paper at 2 percent or more of its polling sites for over an hour.

“There is no reason, there is no excuse why we can’t competently run our elections and have adequate ballot paper,” said state Sen. Mayes Middleton [photo], R-Galveston, a co-author of the bill whose district includes part of southeast Harris County.

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Middleton appeared here last month for him ordering public schools to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom and set aside daily bible reading time. We first heard from him last year for his bill to prosecute and disbar members of a law firm for “reimbursing travel costs of employees who leave Texas to murder their unborn children.”

Whoa. Texas Republicans just voted give a GOP appointee the power to singe-handedly CANCEL election results in the state’s largest Democratic county. The new rule only applies to Harris County, which is one of the fastest-trending blue counties in the US. https://t.co/IpSpg3Ftjj

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 2, 2023