Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, there was neither widespread voter fraud nor other serious issues in Texas’ 2020 elections, according to an audit of four of Texas’ largest counties released by Secretary of State John Scott’s office.
, the state’s chief election official — have routinely said: that the 2020 contest was not riddled with widespread fraud, and Texans should be confident that future elections will be similarly secure.
The findings come ahead of the Texas Legislature’s upcoming session, which starts Jan. 10 and is expected to include numerous voting bills. And the report sheds new light on the effects of Senate Bill 1, a package of voting reforms that lawmakers passed during the 2021 session that significantly tightened mail-in voter identification requirements, banned drive-thru and 24-hour voting, and curtailed early-voting hours, among other things.
The Harris County elections administrators office could not be reached for comment Monday. Officials in Harris County — which significantly “It shows that voters in Tarrant county can trust the process that we have and can be confident in the results of the elections,” said Garcia, who was the subject of harassment on social media from extremists alleging widespread voter fraud in Texas.
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