Elections Committee Hearing Next Week After Ballots Identified
Ballot Secrecy is one of the items being discussed.
Representative Reggie Smith (HD62) called for an Elections Committee meeting on June 12 to discuss ballot secrecy.
Ballot secrecy has become a major concern after multiple ballots for public figures have been identifed.
Weston Martinez, who recently identified a ballot alleged to belong to Texas Representative Colin Allred, also stated he had identified ballots for:
Governor Greg Abbott
Former President George W. Bush
Former First Lady Laura Bush
Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson
We reached out to Martinez to ask him to identify and publish our ballot but he was unable for reasons he explains in this video:
Other items to be discussed in next week’s meeting include the implementation of SB 1070, a bill related to the interstate voter registration crosscheck program, and SB 1750, which is related to abolishing county election administrator positions in certain counties.
I'm an election judge and inspector. Going with precinct level voting, all paper ballots, and getting rid of early voting and maybe just doing 3 days and a row to vote... Like a Thursday Friday Saturday. But if we can't achieve something like that and we're stuck with the machines then I think we should: rework the voting machine so that it spits out not only the original ballot your handed but also 3 more... One that goes in the DS200, one that goes in a sealed bin for the RPT, one for the DPT, and one for the voter to keep themselves. This way each individual county party can do their own audit immediately... And it's not put on the candidate to pay for. The RPT and DPT can cross check each other to see if there are inconsistencies with this DS200 counts. You could quickly identify where an inconsistency is because it's all being done on a precinct level.
Mostly, county wide voting must go, for many reasons. Texas Hand Counts has more info on a movement to return to hand counting and getting rid of the electronic poll pads. Another big issue is registering through the DMV. Just go through the usual route of registering.