{"id":1563601,"date":"2022-07-20T21:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T01:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563601"},"modified":"2022-07-20T21:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T01:34:20","slug":"texas-gop-training-5000-election-workers-poll-watchers-to-improve-election-integrity-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gop-training-5000-election-workers-poll-watchers-to-improve-election-integrity-spokesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas GOP Training 5,000 Election Workers, Poll Watchers to Improve Election Integrity: Spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-gop-training-5000-election-workers-poll-watchers-to-improve-election-integrity-spokesman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563601&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas-gop\">Texas GOP<\/a> says it is stepping up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-election-integrity\">election integrity<\/a> efforts in the state by training and recruiting election personnel watching the polls, according to a party spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas should be the standard bearer for all things Republican, with a Republican-dominated legislature and state office for going on 20 years now,\u201d Wesolek said, noting that the issue of election integrity is \u201cabsolutely\u201d a part of this axiom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since former U.S. President Donald Trump left office in 2021, the Lone Star State\u2019s Republican Party has trained over 5,000 election workers and poll watchers in the state, as part of an effort to \u201cset the goalpost\u201d for improving election integrity statewide and beyond, party spokesperson James Wesolek told The Epoch Times in an interview in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to good Republican policy, Texas should be leading the way and showing what that means \u2026 what good Republican policy looks like,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas GOP\u2019s in-house staff and contractors, in partnership with the Republican National Committee, county-level Republican parties, and other grassroots groups, conduct training and recruitment of election personnel in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The poll watchers would observe the conduct of the election and report irregularities and violations of the Election Code, if any, to election officials. All political parties are allowed to hire election workers to observe all parts of election administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a team effort, and in the end, it\u2019s all a responsibility we feel to be accountable to the voters of Texas,\u201d Wesolek said.<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019s Republicans, in conjunction with former U.S. President Donald Trump and other conservative figures, have been voicing their concerns about how the 2020 election was administered.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5,000 delegates at the biennial Texas GOP Convention last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/texas-gop-passes-resolution-declaring-biden-not-legitimately-elected_4543841.html\">voted and passed<\/a> a resolution that stated President Joe Biden \u201cwas not legitimately elected\u201d and that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas GOP says it is stepping up election integrity efforts in the state by training and recruiting election personnel watching the polls, according to a party spokesperson. \u201cTexas should be the standard bearer for all things Republican, with a Republican-dominated legislature and state office for going on 20 years now,\u201d Wesolek said, noting that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}