The Texas House Elections Committee approved a bill Monday that would force Harris County to get rid of its elections administrator. Some voting rights advocates say it would strip the county of local power and not actually improve its elections.
“Each election seems to bring a new and bigger election disaster than the last,” said Cain, a Republican. “Harris County leadership has done nothing to remedy this embarrassingly poor quality of operation of the elections department.”
Harris in 2020 was the last large county in Texas to create an elections department and appoint an elections administrator. Dallas County, for example, created an election administration position in the 1980s, and slightly more than half of Texas’ 254 counties currently appoint an elections administrator to run their elections.
Bettencourt has said he suspects malfeasance is behind the Harris County problems and has cited a report from a Houston-based TV station that says more than 100 locations ran out of paper, disenfranchising what he says are mostly Republican voters. But a recent investigation by the Houston Chronicle found that out of the more than 782 polling locations,ran out of paper.
More than a dozen people signed up to testify on Bettencourt’s bill Thursday. However, Texas House Elections Committee Chair Rep.“No one in leadership from Harris County came to defend themselves,” Smith said. “Not [Harris County Commissioner] Rodney Ellis, and not the [elections administrator], nobody showed up to defend them.”
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