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The Texas Legislature is advancing a bill that would allow the secretary of state to redo elections in Harris County, where a number of Democratic candidates posted strong midterm election results and which has been dogged by GOP claims of election mismanagement.
The Republican-controlled Senate passed the bill Tuesday and sent it to the state House. If it is enacted, it would allow the secretary of state to toss out election results in the state's largest county and call a new vote if there is "good cause" to believe that at least 2% of polling places ran out of usable ballots during voting hours.
The bill would apply only to counties with populations greater than 2.7 million, effectively singling out Harris County, which is home to Houston and has by far the largest population in the state, at nearly 5 million. In recent decades, Harris County has become more Democratic.
NBC NewsLake continuing to fight in AZ has a ripple effect to other states.
Now as to the issues with signature verification in Maricopa County for mail-in ballots, that's mostly if not all done by Runbeck. They pick up the MIBs from the main postal facility (without ounting how many ballots are in the batch) take them back to Runbeck and scan the envelopes, image the signature block, scan the barcode that is assigned to each individual voter, weigh them, etc.
The images of the sig block are supposedly tranmitted to election officials to compare to signatures on record and flagged for separation, if deficient (again allegedly they are separated out.)
Now Runbeck's website claims that all of their services are fully auditable, yet they now claim they are not subject to open record laws because they are privately owned. So are those signature images going to be turned over to the court as part of this review?