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The Texas Capitol building. Montinique Monroe/Getty Half an hour before deciding to deliver all of Texas’s 38 electoral college votes to Donald Trump and Mike Pence, the Texas electors faced a simpler vote. Who would chair their meeting? There were several contenders. Matthew Stringer, a right-wing activist and correspondent for the media wing of Empower Texans, was nominated as chairman and promptly seconded. Ken Mercer, a former member of the State Board of Education, then nominated Richard Tex Hall, a cowboy-hat-wearing, tobacco-dipping insurance agent from Bulverde, north of San Antonio. Finally, Randy Orr, who had lost a bid for a Texas Senate seat in 2018, put himself forward, apparently ignoring the advice of the Reverend Gregory S. Davidson, whose invocation before the meeting had asked God to “deliver [the electors] from all considerations of self-interest.” Neither Hall nor Orr could find a second, and thus were eliminated from contention. As voting on Stringer ensu

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