Passage Of SB 1750 Unjustly Targets Harris County Voters And Elections Officials
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Valerie Street
vgstreet@ourvotetexas.org
AUSTIN, TX - Earlier this week, the Texas House passed SB 1750 which will abolish the position of Elections Administrator in Harris County. Yesterday it was signed in the Senate and now SB 1750 heads to Gov. Abbott’s desk for his signature.
For more, visit: Harris County must remove its elections chief under new legislation headed to Gov. Greg Abbott- The Texas Tribune, May 23, 2023
Our Vote Texas Board Director Carl Blair issues the following statement in response to these developments:
“In the 2022 midterms, there were media reports of widespread outages of paper ballots at polling places all across Harris County. But as later examination of the data has shown, those early reports were wildly overblown. Fueled by those media exaggerations, lawmakers have spent this entire legislative session waging a wide ranging attack on Harris County’s very ability to run its own elections.
“No evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on the part of the Harris County Elections Administrator or his staff has been proven in a court of law, no testimony from any supposedly disenfranchised voters has been offered in any forum, and no state or local investigations into the matter have even been completed yet. Yet unproven accusations and conspiracy theories were the basis of SB 1750.
“The people of Harris County, like Texans in every other county in our state, deserve to have the ability to determine whether they want a non-partisan Elections Administrator selected by their county’s elected officials or a partisan County Clerk to administer their elections. Fundamental fairness demands no less.”
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