“I don’t know if these folks are aware of it, Trump actually did carry Texas,” chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus Rep. Chris Turner said. “So I’m not sure what they’re trying to find in their audit.”
The Texas Voter Confidence Act, filed by GOP Rep. Steve Toth, authorizes the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the House — all of whom are currently Republicans — to select an independent third party to conduct the election audit. The review would focus on the votes cast in Texas' 13 counties with a population over 415,000.
The move comes as the Texas House Democratic delegation fled the state en masse to Washington, D.C., to deny. It also comes as GOP-led states have introduced or passed dozens of election-related bills following Trump’s repeated baseless claims that the election was stolen. In states such as Arizona, where Biden won the presidential race, Republicans are also conducting a costly and controversial audit of ballots in the state’s largest county.
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