conditions, and absurd legislation have completely changed her job. had to learn a lot of information really quickly. reporter: with no election team in place, it fell to the county clerk, lindsay brown, to serve as the elections administrator. people that have been in elections before, people that have worked it before, i ve tapped into their knowledge and wisdom. reporter: i understand the texas secretary of state s office has sent in election trainers, they re sending in inspectors. how valuable or how needed have those people been? very very valuable. reporter: jerry vaclove is a gillespie county democrat who will work as an alternate precinct judge. he attended those polling training sessions and says what he heard from the election conspiracy theorists troubles him. one of the major questions in our training session is, well, what do we do with the fake i.d.s that the biden administration is issuing to illegals when they cross the border? and the secretary of stat
republicans in texas have a habit ofworking with each other the way i understand it democrats, you included are upset with 24-hour voting only in one county for one day during the pandemic. you are upset there is no more drive-thru voting. and you are upset that there is voter i.d. required instead of signature verification. am i right on those three counts? well, and also, that there seems to be in the bill grant more authority to the poll watcher than it does the precinct judge. let me tell you why those are significant. because, and i explained this to the members yesterday. on the surface, it looks like those are benign, i mean. brian: yeah: not necessarily for this person or that person or this group or that group. buff the reality is that the majority of the people who took advantage of those, both of those provisions were black and brown so when you take it away. what you are doing is you are at
With a historic 2020 Presidential Election behind them, election officials and others weren t sure what to expect as far as voter turnout for Tuesday s primary.
Municipal primaries generally see the lowest turnout of most elections, but this year s vote might have shattered records with its current 25.5% estimated participation.
About 121,340 of the county s 476,127 registered voters showed up either at polling places or, for the first time in a municipal primary, via the state s no-excuse mail-in ballot option.
It s difficult to guess right now what drove turnout, though election officials and candidates seemed to expect mail-in ballots to be a major contributor.
The county s live election results page on Wednesday afternoon listed in-person, mail-in and absentee ballots as partially reported, though 100% of precincts had reported in since polls closed at 8 Tuesday night.
state law center. what is the best argument. the states have the right to protect the voting process and the integrity. in a former opinion within by john paul stevens they upheld a very similar law, almost the exact same law in indiana, in 20086-3 with justice stevens writing the opinion. he s been replaced bee justice kagan, but there are still five votes on the court for these kind of laws. the best argument right there is the supreme court has recently said these laws are okay if you take the safeguards that texas did. bill: based on previous legislation, states in the south like texas have a different burden of proof and all this. i think it s fascinating when you compare the southern states and northern states. chuck, make your best case for why you think the justice department has a shot at this. i d like to look at it from the local view. i was born and raised in east texas. i was a local precinct judge in east texas and ran local elections in my precinct for ten