Texas Republicans want power to overturn Harris County elections over mishaps at the polls

 If you live in Harris County, Texas, (where Houston is located)  your vote may not count if you're a Democrat - if Republicans in the state have their way. Here's the latest scheme by the Republican Party to defraud voters of their votes. It's hard to believe that one party is trying everything they can to rig elections to stay in power, but it's true. How can you stop this? Vote republicans OUT. Here's the story from the Houston Chronicle. 

Texas Republicans want power to overturn Harris County elections over mishaps at the polls 

HOUSTON CHRONICLE, May 2, 2023

Legislation advanced by the Texas Senate on Tuesday would give a governor-appointed official authority to toss results and call a new election.

The GOP-controlled Texas Senate on Tuesday passed a proposal allowing the state to overturn elections in Harris County, home to the state’s most populous city Houston.

The legislation penalizes county officials for running out of ballot paper at some voting sites in the 2022 election, the Houston Chronicle reported. Still, more importantly, it gives Republican Gov. Greg Abbott “precedent-setting” power to undo election results.

“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, R-Galveston, a co-author of the bill whose district includes part of southeast Harris County.

The measure provoked outrage from outnumbered Democrats in the Texas Senate who blasted Middleton for trying to give the governor new authority to toss election results as President Donald Trump sought to do after he lost in 2020.

“You want to vest in a political appointee the ability to make a decision as to whether or not an election should be overturned and reheld?” asked state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, during a debate in the Senate on Monday.

Sen. Borris Miles, D-Houston, took offense to Middleton’s bill for only giving Abbott’s appointee the power to overturn an election in Harris County, the most populous of the state’s 254 counties. The cost of that new election would also be the responsibility of taxpayers in Harris County, which would cost millions of dollars.

"Does that seem kind of biased to you?" Miles said. "We're just going to pick on my county?" FULL ARTICLE: https://web.archive.org/web/20230502231219/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/texas-republicans-seek-overturn-elections-mishaps-18073334.php