The strange silence around Texas election audit | Opinion
A voter casts a ballot at the American Airlines Center in Dallas the morning of Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. When Texas launched a “full forensic audit” of the 2020 general election, Gov. Greg Abbott and the office of the secretary of state wanted everybody to know about it.
There was then, as there is now, no credible question about the integrity of the state’s elections, but onward we went. Now, the first phase of the audit is done and very few issues were found in the four counties targeted for the review: Dallas, Collin, Tarrant and Harris. The largest discrepancy was located in Republican-leaning Collin County, where a difference of 17 votes between manual and electronic counts was found. And for that, Collin County officials had a clear explanation.
What we got instead was a news drop about the audit results on New Year’s Eve, when few Texans were paying attention. In journalism, we know from experience that officials save bad news for the night before a holiday.Maybe the lack of noise over the audit results has more to do with the fact that they will make it more difficult to justify additional “election integrity” stunts like this one.
This is what that office found in a statewide review that was part of the first phase of the 2020 election audit: 509 instances where individuals may have cast ballots in Texas and another state and 67 possible cases of votes cast on behalf of dead voters. That was among 11.3 million votes cast.recent reporting
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