The Secretary of State\u2019s office has now directed Harris County to correct its voter rolls after some voters were found to have registered illegally by listing P.O. boxes as residential addresses on their voter registration forms.<\/p>\n
This comes after State Senator Paul Bettencourt\u2014who formerly served as Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector and voter registrar\u2014discovered potentially thousands of illegal registrations and sent a letter to the Secretary of State asking for an investigation.<\/p>\n
Bettencourt is now praising the order by Secretary of State Jane Nelson to purge these voters from the rolls as a win for election integrity. \u201cWhenever you have thousands of illegal registrations, there\u2019s always a potential for fraud to creep into any election process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He also pointed out that these estimated 3,000\u20134,000 voters could have a major impact on small down-ballot and judicial races throughout the county\u2014so eliminating them is a major step forward when it comes to public trust.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they know there are several thousand people registered that have moved out of town or whatever, it just throws a lack of trust into the election outcome,\u201d Bettencourt said.<\/p>\n
He also mentioned how happy he is to see that Texans finally have a quick and efficient way to address these voter-security questions, thanks to legislation he authored and passed during the 89th legislative session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Secretary of State\u2019s office has now directed Harris County to correct its voter rolls after some voters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-113683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}