A judge has called a new law unconstitutional that passed in the GOP-led Texas Legislature that will dictate how elections are run in the state’s most populous county.
In a statement, the Texas Attorney General’s Office said the new law was passed “to ensure that elections in the state’s largest counties are properly managed by individuals who are accountable to the voters, not by unaccountable bureaucrats.”
The new law is “unreasonable, arbitrary, and simply a means of singling out one county,” Crump wrote. “At the end of the day, we know that this is not about making elections better ... It’s about undermining confidence in our elections,” said Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee, a Democrat.have acknowledged problemsAlmost two dozen Republican candidates have filed lawsuits, alleging their losses in Harris County during last year’s election were due in part to the various problems as well as to illegally cast votes.
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