The plan calls for the county to identify eligible voters and send them registration forms. GOP officials say it’s an end-run around state law.
Experts caution against concluding that the totals are a sign of widespread illegal voting.
Coming upgrades would allow counties to do without outside vendors, officials say.
Texas Secretary of State’s Office will send election inspectors to Harris County, the state’s most populous, in November.
After ‘activist rulemaking’ in Georgia, experts are still confident officials can thwart local efforts to interfere with finalizing presidential results.
State and federal laws protect voters from being improperly removed from the rolls if someone questions their eligibility.
Laura Pressley claims to have found a way to link voters to their ballots. But she won’t make it public, and experts says her proposed solution could make things worse.
The burden will fall on local election officials to determine which records they’re obligated to release or redact.
The request to the U.S. Department of Justice comes after Texas undermined ballot secrecy in the name of election transparency.
Registered voters in 96 Texas counties cast ballots at vote centers on election day. Scrapping that option could have costly implications.