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Texas’ secretary of state is Jane Nelson, a former Republican state senator who was nominated by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Harris County voters can cast their ballot at any vote center on Election Day, which means if they encounter a ballot shortage at one site, they can go to another center. “There is no reason, there is no excuse why we can’t competently run our elections and have adequate ballot paper,”Voting rights advocates have raised concerns about the legislation.
“As written, the bill does not clearly define ‘good cause’ and that is a serious problem that could easily throw our elections into chaos,” said Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas, a group aiming to keep elections free, fair and accessible.he will sue if the bill is enacted.
Rice University political scientist Robert Stein, a paid consultant to KHOU and an expert witness on the county’s behalf, told PolitiFact he started his own analysis by asking: “Was there a disruption in voting?” Stein said he identified 26 locations with voting stoppages of 20 or more minutes that could have been because of a shortage of ballots.
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