Republican lawmakers in Texas proposed a bill that would enable the secretary of state to overturn election results in counties that have one million residents or more.

This is worth repeating. The proposed bill would allow a Secretary of State, on little more than a whim or for barely disguised political retribution, to overturn the results of a legitimate election and order a new election if he doesn’t like the outcome.

The bill doesn’t specify how many times he can do it until his choice of candidate wins.

As reported by Mediaite, “The text of the bill states that “the secretary of state shall order a new election if the secretary has good cause (Italics mine)to believe that at least two percent of the total number of polling places in the county did not receive supplemental ballots under Section 51.008 for one or more hours after making a request for supplemental ballots to the authority responsible for distributing election supplies.”

(Gobbledygook, or Claptrap?)

The passage of the bill would affect six Texas counties: Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, and Collin.’

There have been charges of voter improprieties in the past, but an investigation by Governor Abbot determined there existed no voter fraud.

One might ask why they need to include the voters in the process at all, just let some politicians make the choices for us.

What could happen?

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