The possibility of having votes audited sent Harris County’s Democratic executives into a preemptive panic.
Harris County Commissioners Court voted 3 to 2 along party lines this week to mount a legal challenge to a state-planned audit of county-run elections over the past two years.
“There’s no reason for a politicized and politically motivated election audit especially after democracy nearly crumbled over this pandering,” said County Judge Lina Hidalgo, who equated the audit to the January 6 riot in Washington D.C.
“Politicized and politically motivated” means “we can’t let Republicans catch us cheating.” Remember, this is the county where the voting administrator had to resign over a horribly botched March primary this year.
Last week, the Texas Secretary of State’s (SOS) office announced the random selection of four counties for an audit of all elections from the 2020 general election through the 2022 general election, including all primaries. Senate Bill (SB) 1, the state’s new election overhaul law passed last year, mandates audits of two counties with populations fewer than 300,000 and two with populations greater than 300,000, selected at random.
Although the Office of the Secretary of State posted a video of employees drawing the names of counties to be audited from a bucket, County Attorney Christian Menefee told commissioners he found the drawing suspicious. He said the video looked like “a sketch comedy show,” and complained that the SOS had neither posted rules for how the counties would be selected nor notified counties ahead of time.
“Had we known this was going on, we would have had somebody there to ensure there was transparency in the process,” said Menefee.
You have to have a lot of damn gall to complain about “transparency” after being accused of turnings security cameras off.
Prior SB 1, in September 2021, the secretary of state’s office announced it would launch audits of the state’s two largest Democratic and two largest Republican counties — Dallas, Harris, Tarrant, and Collin — for the 2020 election as permitted under law. The commissioners court voted 3 to 2 to legally contest that audit at the time but took no action.
Those 2020 audits are still underway, but earlier this year, the secretary of state’s office published a progress report indicating Harris County’s voter rolls included 3,063 potentially non-citizen voters.
Judging from the shenanigans pulled in the 2020 Presidential election, illegal alien voting fraud is probably only the tip of the iceberg…
Tags: Christian Menefee, Democrats, Harris County, Harris County Commissioners Court, Holly Hansen, Lina Hidalgo, Texas
Dems seems uniformly opposed to the idea of accountability. Can’t imagine why that might be…
With yesterday’s Mar-a-lago raid, Texas Republicans should start getting really tough on clowns like Hildalgo. It shouldn’t even be a hard issues, because as noted, Harris County was the only county in Texas that failed to meet the deadline reporting in the primary election. It is the county that has had the most problems in handling elections. And the position of “voting administrator” is a made-up role by the county judge, as the elected position of county clerk administers elections. The county clerk is accountable to voters. The “voting administrator” is only accountable to the county judge. Republican officials at all levels of the state need to call out this behavior as unacceptable.
“to ensure there was transparency” = to bribe the right people to keep my county out of the bucket
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But…but…I was told just last week that audits are nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hiiiiiiide!
Hildago is an ignorant woman who was voted in by mistake. County Judge (not a lawyer) is the chief executive for Harris County politics. She is not quite qualified for this job and is being manipulated by Democrat operatives. The corruption and fraud is legion and an audit would show that.