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TX GOP Bill Would Allow State to Throw Out Houston Election Results

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Texas bill would allow state to throw out Harris County elections results

The Texas bill would remove the election responsibilities from the chief administrator to the Harris County Clerk and tax assessor.
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A Texas bill calling for the abolition of the position of elections administrator in Harris County is inching closer and closer to final passage after a Monday vote moved the legislation out of the Texas House Elections Committee. Senate Bill 1750 already passed the Senate on April 18. House Bill 3876, an identical piece of legislation, will be up for debate in the House Chamber.
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The measures call for the "abolition" of election administrators in counties with populations larger than 1,000,000—a metric that only applies to Harris County, which Republican state lawmakers have taken a keen interest in in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections.
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Local and conservatives have keyed in on paper ballot shortages and a number of voting machine malfunctions that were reported at a small number of polling locations on Election Day— incidents that prompted a district judge to extend voting by 1 hour at Harris County polls. Since then, the Harris County Elections Office report concluded that they couldn't determine if potential voters were pushed away because of the issues at polling centers.
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Fantine said:
Here comes the judge! Here comes the judge! (Fingers crossed).
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These are states rights judges where those who rule the state can do as they please.
Don't like it, have those who run the state pass laws to stop themselves.
Make America Great Again means going back to pre voting rights laws where the Feds no longer intervene on run away states.
SCOTUS Chief Justice was deluded enough to believe those laws were no longer warranted.
The GOP states rolled their eyes, licked their chops, and are making a a mockery of that court decision.
 
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I remember when Republicans indirectly alluded to trying to take the democratic process out of American politics.
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At some point we're going to have to ask conservatives what they are trying to conserve by trying to damage the American democratic process.
 
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Say it aint so said:
These are states rights judges where those who rule the state can do as they please.
Don't like it, have those who run the state pass laws to stop themselves.
Make America Great Again means going back to pre voting rights laws where the Feds no longer intervene on run away states.
SCOTUS Chief Justice was deluded enough to believe those laws were no longer warranted.
The GOP states rolled their eyes, licked their chops, and are making a a mockery of that court decision.
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That particular decision was already a mockery lacking in any understanding of human nature or reality.

Ignoring voters for the purposes of power isn't a "states rights" position it's an authoritarian or fascist one.

The will of the people and the consent of the governed should be the basis of the authority of government.
 
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