From Texas elections official faces attacks and pressure from partisan activists:
Last week, Trump issued a public letter demanding an audit in Texas. Hours later, the Texas secretary of state’s office announced that it had begun a “comprehensive forensic audit” in four of the state’s largest counties: Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Collin. Biden won three of the four.
Take a moment to think about this. Former President Trump demanded an audit in a state he won, and for some reason, despite being under no legal obligation to do so, the Texas secretary of state carried out the old loser’s orders. But he already won the state’s electors, so even if any irregularities are found and the corrected vote significantly increases his lead, his campaign will still have won the same losing number of national electors.
But the story linked above doesn’t spend much time considering that. Instead (and more better-y), it focuses on the harassment of nonpartisan election administrators in counties where former President Trump won with as much as 81% of the vote.
[It]…represents the escalation of a wider push to replace independent administrators with more actively partisan election officials…and reflects a wider rift in Texas among different factions of the GOP…
It’s a good, deep read.
