“Election Integrity” or Voter Intimidation?
Texas Republicans are pushing changes to election laws that would let partisan poll watchers record voters in polling places.
Texas Republicans are pushing changes to election laws that would let partisan poll watchers record voters in polling places.
During a March webinar, Bill Ely pulled up a map of Harris County while presenting the local Republican Party’s ambitious plan for the 2022 midterms: building an “army” of 10,000 conservative election monitors. Ely, a local Tea Party leader who heads the committee within the Harris County GOP dedicated to ballot security, pointed to the northwest Houston suburb where he lives, where “almost seven out of 10 homes are Republican.” Ely stressed to other party leaders on the call the importance of recruiting more election monitors from neighborhoods like his, then he dragged the cursor down to the heart of the city. Pointing to majority Black and brown neighborhoods, Ely said th
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A filmed presentation from a Republican official in Texas and obtained by a voting rights advocacy group reveals a push for an “army” of poll watchers in the greater Houston area “where the fraud is occurring”.
The 49-minute video published by Common Cause Texas shows a map of Harris County voting precincts, as a voice tells supporters to muster “the confidence and courage to come down here” as part of an “election integrity brigade” to combat alleged voter fraud, pointing to areas in Houston that include large Black and Latino populations.
Release of the video, which was created in March, follows passage of a sweeping bill to restrict ballot access by cutting early voting hours and banning drive-through voting sites that proved popular in 2020 elections for one of the largest counties in the US.