Closing arguments completed the first of 20 Harris County 2022 election trials. Verdicts won't be in for roughly a month. Read the details here:
The first of 20 other election contest lawsuits wrapped up trial in the Harris County Civil Courthouse Thursday afternoon.Attorneys gave closing arguments on Thursday morning on the final day of a trial challenging the results of a Harris County judicial race held last November. The possibility of overturning the outcome and calling a new election is now in the hands of the court.
Andy Taylor, Lunceford’s lead lawyer, kicked off arguments by giving a brief overview to the court. He reiterated that their team claimed 3,000 voters were turned away at 29 polls due to shortages of ballot papers, meaning that thousands of votes that should’ve been cast were not. Alongside determining the legality of overall votes questioned in this race, Taylor said Peeples will likely need to determine whether the ballots submitted after-hours are eligible for the final count as the Texas Supreme Court has declined to do so thus far.
Lawyers for Lunceford argued that these mistakes were all the difference in their attempts to prove that thousands of illegal votes were cast and eligible voters were turned away in this race, respectively. He claimed that the only “knowledgeable” person brought forward to testify was Christina Adkins, the elections director for the Texas Secretary of State, and yet she was given not a single piece of evidence from this election to provide testimony specific to this race.
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