The Texas Senate is expected to vote on five election integrity bills that advanced out of the Senate Committee on State Affairs that would increase or add penalties for a wide number of voting irregularities.
Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, filed all five bills with the exception of one he co-sponsored with the committee’s chair, Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Tyler.
SB 1039, filed by Bettencourt and Hughes, relates to processes to address election irregularities and would provide a civil penalty. It would amend state election code to create a process to take action against an election officer who appears to violate state election law and contributes to election irregularities in a precinct or at polling places, among other issues.
They filed the bill to implement “common-sense election audit procedures to identify and correct election irregularities like the thousands that were identified after the November 2022 election in Harris County,” Bettencourt said.
Bettencourt filed the election integrity bills to specifically respond to widespread failures with Harris County’s election processes in the 2020 and 2022 elections. The county is still embroiled in lawsuits over multiple election irregularities that occurred on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022.
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