Election integrity has become a major issue nationally, and it\u2019s once again hitting home here in Harris County after multiple residents received voter registration certificate cards from the Harris County Tax Assessor\/Collector\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
KTRH\u2019s own Jimmy Barrett received a voter registration certification for the previous owner of his home, who hasn\u2019t lived in Texas\u2014let alone the Houston\/Harris County area\u2014for nearly 10 years. State Senator Paul Bettencourt, who represents portions of Harris County, also confirmed to KTRH that at least one other resident experienced the same thing.<\/p>\n
Bettencourt also confirmed that this means the previous owner of Barrett\u2019s home is eligible to vote under his address. \u201cA card has shown up, that means that some voter file has been reinstated that didn\u2019t get updated until now,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
He went on to say that this is a prime example of exactly how bad the Harris County voter rolls and election processes have been over the last several years. \u201cThe prior tax assessor had not gone into the office for several years,\u201d Bettencourt said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since there\u2019s been some management.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bettencourt advised any residents who receive a voter registration card for the former residents of their homes to report it to the county tax assessor-collector\u2019s office\u2014which is now required, thanks to new election integrity laws he authored, to address the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Election integrity has become a major issue nationally, and it\u2019s once again hitting home here in Harris County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-168080","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\/168080","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=168080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}