A right-wing group is quietly conducting review of 300,000 Tarrant County ballots from 2020 primary
over his closest challenger, who won 13% of the county’s votes. The group also alleges a range of fraudulent activities related to the 2020 November general election in Tarrant and other counties across the state but has offered no evidence to support the allegations.
Volunteers have arrived daily at the Tarrant County election administration office’s ballot board room, which is where absentee ballots are typically counted. Garcia, who’s led the office since 2018, said this is the first time he’s received a request of this scope: a large group of people seeking to physically review thousands of paper ballots.
With the request pending and the clock ticking, the Tarrant County elections office had to set a plan, a policy, and procedures to have such a large group of people in the office for days on end while simultaneously ensuring the ballots’ security and continuing other work, Garcia said.It prohibits writing or marking instruments. All interaction with the documents by non-elections personnel is subject to video and in-person monitoring.
Sam Taylor, assistant secretary of state for communications said election offices around the state are receiving large numbers of public information requests, and they are likely not going away any time soon. “It's really ominous for what we may see if this election and then in 2024,” said James Slattery, senior attorney for the Texas Civil Rights Project’s voting rights program. “Our democracy really relies on people having faith that they are casting a ballot that counts and that our leaders are elected through an accurate count of those votes.
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