Texas Senate Approves Bill To Allow Gov. Greg Abbott To Overturn Elections – By Ron Dicker (Huffpost) / May 3, 2023
The GOP-controlled body’s unprecedented move focuses on Houston’s Harris County.
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.
The measure would give Abbott’s appointed secretary of state the authority to hold a new election in the county if it runs out of paper at 2% or more of its polling sites for more than an hour, the newspaper noted.
