The bill was also originally drafted with a wider scope, however, it was narrowed to only impact counties with 3.5 million residents. Harris County is the sole county that meets that requirement.
In 2020, about 20 out of the county's 782 polling locations ran out of ballot paper on Election Day, and in 2022, the county missed the deadline for reporting results and uncounted ballots were discovered.
Democrats say the pair of bills are targeting the county because it is a Democratic stronghold on Election Day. "So, you're saying the egregious acts of Harris County is what led to this bill, but yet, we don't know what other egregious counties were?" Rep. Jarvis Johnson asked. "The egregious acts of Harris County is what led it to only being about counties with 3.5 million or more. There was another bill that would have been about large counties, but they chose not to do that one because there were not the issues in those counties," House Speaker Briscoe Cain said.
"There absolutely are not any issues with voting in Harris County, except for the fact that it is a blue county and it is your intention to overturn elections in Harris County," Johnson replied.
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