AUSTIN — Ten Democratic members of Congress, led by Dallas Rep. Colin Allred, on Wednesday called on the Department of Justice to monitor the ongoing audit...
Request comes as election officials in North Texas are reporting large increases in rejected applications for mail in ballots, citing Senate Bill 1.
In the past several days, elections administrators in North Texas and in several of Texas’ largest counties have reported having to reject hundreds of applications for mail-in ballots because of new election laws. Through last Thursday, about 40% of ballot requests in Tarrant County had been rejected because of issues with ID numbers, that county’s Election Administrator Heider Garcia said. The elections administrator for Denton CountyThe rejection rates are “absolutely higher,” said Sherbet, who said rejection rates for absentee ballots usually fall between 2% and 3%.
The members of Congress, which also include Dallas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson and Fort Worth Rep. Marc Veasey, said in a letter to Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke that they “have serious concern that this audit may be an attempt to invalidate properly cast ballots in the 2020 Presidential election.”The upcoming party primaries will be the first statewide elections held since the controversial election law SB 1 took effect.
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