Harris County, Texas wants election monitors

 Daily Caller:

Earlier this year, the Houston Chronicle won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of editorials alleging that Texas politics has been rooted in racism and voter suppression since Reconstruction. The award-winning editorial claims:

“[Election] Integrity is no more the goal for them [Texas Republican leadership in 2021] than it was for the white primary associations of the 1900s. Only today’s voter fraud warriors have laser pointers.”

With early voting almost completed in Texas, the folks in Harris County, the most populous county in the state, which includes Houston, are now calling for the Department of Justice to come to Texas to monitor the election. (RELATED: BOWMAN BIS: Every Single Vote Matters — Legal Or Illegal)

This move demonstrates Harris County officials’ determination to keep their hometown newspaper’s award-winning “voter suppression narrative” alive.

With the two-week early voting period almost over, no reports of voter suppression have surfaced anywhere in the state, but that hasn’t stopped Democrat-controlled Harris County from calling in federal election observers.

The race for county control is tight in Houston. That’s particularly true of the county judge race — in Texas, county judges are administrators with wide powers. Democrats are facing a possible defeat at the polls on Tuesday and will undoubtedly cry “voter suppression” if they lose.

Bringing in the feds could help them concoct some kind of voter suppression story to cast doubt on the GOP victory. After White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said this week that increased voter turnout and voter suppression can happen at the same time, we know that when it comes to voter suppression, Democrats will say anything. They have completely lost touch with reality.

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I used to live in Harris County when Republicans were winning elections and never saw any problem with voter suppression.  It has an even larger population now.  In fact, it has been electing Democrats lately and they are running the elections.  The Republicans are out in the suburbs now.  Texas has a few blue cities but the population as a whole is still dominated by Republicans.  The last poll I saw had Republicans leading in statewide races.

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