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Saying state lawmakers didn’t budget enough money, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP legislative leaders on Friday cited an honest-elections “emergency” as they shifted $4 million from the state prison system to the secretary of state’s office to pay for county election audits required by the new Texas elections law.

The secretary of state’s office, under Abbott’s effective control, would
create an Election Audit Division to conduct the randomized county audits the new law calls for after the next midterm and presidential elections – and thereafter, every two years.

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That’s an important step “to stop voter fraud,” Abbott said in his money request to top Republican lawmakers.

Implicit but unstated in Abbott’s Thursday letter, and the leaders’ hasty proposal Friday for the fund transfer, which the governor approved, is that
the $4 million for hiring, training and deploying election auditors
presumably would beef up the rigor – and credibility – of a backward-looking audit the secretary of state’s office already is formulating. It’ll study results of the November 2020 election in four counties.

Officials in Republican leadership offices at the Capitol said Abbott’s move
is aimed primarily at an “audience of one” – former President Donald Trump,
who has belittled the four-county audit as “weak.” Even though Trump carried Texas by nearly 6 percentage points, he demanded that Abbott push through a
law requiring a statewide look-back at the 2020 general election.

Abbott did not add election audits as a topic for any of three overtime sessions of the Legislature he called this year.

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Saying state lawmakers didn’t budget enough money, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP legislative leaders on Friday cited an honest-elections “emergency” as they shifted $4 million from the state prison system to the secretary of state’s office to pay for county election audits required by the new Texas elections law.

The secretary of state’s office, under Abbott’s effective control, would
create an Election Audit Division to conduct the randomized county audits the new law calls for after the next midterm and presidential elections – and thereafter, every two years.

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That’s an important step “to stop voter fraud,” Abbott said in his money request to top Republican lawmakers.

Implicit but unstated in Abbott’s Thursday letter, and the leaders’ hasty proposal Friday for the fund transfer, which the governor approved, is that
the $4 million for hiring, training and deploying election auditors
presumably would beef up the rigor – and credibility – of a backward-looking audit the secretary of state’s office already is formulating. It’ll study results of the November 2020 election in four counties.

Officials in Republican leadership offices at the Capitol said Abbott’s move
is aimed primarily at an “audience of one” – former President Donald Trump,
who has belittled the four-county audit as “weak.” Even though Trump carried Texas by nearly 6 percentage points, he demanded that Abbott push through a
law requiring a statewide look-back at the 2020 general election.

Abbott did not add election audits as a topic for any of three overtime sessions of the Legislature he called this year.

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Saying state lawmakers didn’t budget enough money, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP legislative leaders on Friday cited an honest-elections “emergency” as they shifted $4 million from the state prison system to the secretary of state’s office to pay for county election audits required by the new Texas elections law.

The secretary of state’s office, under Abbott’s effective control, would
create an Election Audit Division to conduct the randomized county audits the new law calls for after the next midterm and presidential elections – and thereafter, every two years.

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That’s an important step “to stop voter fraud,” Abbott said in his money request to top Republican lawmakers.

Implicit but unstated in Abbott’s Thursday letter, and the leaders’ hasty proposal Friday for the fund transfer, which the governor approved, is that
the $4 million for hiring, training and deploying election auditors
presumably would beef up the rigor – and credibility – of a backward-looking audit the secretary of state’s office already is formulating. It’ll study results of the November 2020 election in four counties.

Officials in Republican leadership offices at the Capitol said Abbott’s move
is aimed primarily at an “audience of one” – former President Donald Trump,
who has belittled the four-county audit as “weak.” Even though Trump carried Texas by nearly 6 percentage points, he demanded that Abbott push through a
law requiring a statewide look-back at the 2020 general election.

Abbott did not add election audits as a topic for any of three overtime sessions of the Legislature he called this year.

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Saying state lawmakers didn’t budget enough money, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP legislative leaders on Friday cited an honest-elections “emergency” as they shifted $4 million from the state prison system to the secretary of state’s office to pay for county election audits required by the new Texas elections law.

The secretary of state’s office, under Abbott’s effective control, would
create an Election Audit Division to conduct the randomized county audits the new law calls for after the next midterm and presidential elections – and thereafter, every two years.

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Mexican shoppers have returned along the border, but not in the massive
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That’s an important step “to stop voter fraud,” Abbott said in his money request to top Republican lawmakers.

Implicit but unstated in Abbott’s Thursday letter, and the leaders’ hasty proposal Friday for the fund transfer, which the governor approved, is that
the $4 million for hiring, training and deploying election auditors
presumably would beef up the rigor – and credibility – of a backward-looking audit the secretary of state’s office already is formulating. It’ll study results of the November 2020 election in four counties.

Officials in Republican leadership offices at the Capitol said Abbott’s move
is aimed primarily at an “audience of one” – former President Donald Trump,
who has belittled the four-county audit as “weak.” Even though Trump carried Texas by nearly 6 percentage points, he demanded that Abbott push through a
law requiring a statewide look-back at the 2020 general election.

Abbott did not add election audits as a topic for any of three overtime sessions of the Legislature he called this year.

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