{"id":2009076,"date":"2023-08-23T09:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T13:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-supreme-court-allows-removal-of-harris-county-elections-administrators-office\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T13:28:10","slug":"texas-supreme-court-allows-removal-of-harris-county-elections-administrators-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-supreme-court-allows-removal-of-harris-county-elections-administrators-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Supreme Court approves removal of Harris County Elections Administrator&#8217;s Office."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-supreme-court-allows-removal-of-harris-county-elections-administrators-office%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=2009076&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--><h2>The\u2062 Harris County Elections Administrators&#8217; Office Loses Oversight of November Election<\/h2>\n<p>The upcoming November election \u2064in Harris County, Texas, will no longer\u2062 be\u2063 overseen by\u200d the Harris\u200c County Elections Administrators&#8217; office. This decision came after the Texas Supreme \u200cCourt denied a request \u200bto block a new \u2064law that effectively \u2064eliminates the\u2064 position. As a result, the duties of the election administrator will be transferred to the Harris County Clerk and Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling,\u200d which takes effect on September 1, is\u200d based on Senate Bill 1750 passed by Republican lawmakers in May. This bill abolishes the position \u200cof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-house-republicans-call-for-answers-from-texas-elections-administrator-over-private-funding-for-elections\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Call For Answers From Texas Elections Administrator Over Private Funding For Elections\">county election administrator<\/a> in counties with a population of over 3.5 million and transfers election duties to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wait-until-you-see-whats-coming-president-trump-fires-warning-shot-on-fraudulent-computer-voting-systems\/\" title=\"\"Wait Until You See What's Coming!\" - President Trump Fires Warning Shot on Fraudulent Computer Voting Systems\">county clerk<\/a> and\u200b tax assessor-collector.<\/p>\n<h3>Background and Controversy<\/h3>\n<p>The need for this \u200clegislation arose from alleged &#8220;serious election irregularities&#8221; during the 2022 Harris County elections. Advocates argue that\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-supreme-court-allows-removal-of-harris-county-elections-administrators-office\/\" title=\"Texas Supreme Court approves removal of Harris County Elections Administrator's Office.\">appointed\u200d elections administrators mismanaged<\/a>\u200d the elections, leading to\u200c issues such as uncounted ballots and paper \u200cballot shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Republican \u200clawmakers pointed to incidents where thousands\u200b of ballots\u2063 were not included in the final results and were later &#8220;found&#8221; by the elections administrator. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruel-summer-biden-faces-bruising-few-weeks-of-setbacks-and-scandal\/\" title=\"Biden's summer: A tough time of setbacks and scandal.\">incidents raised concerns<\/a> about the\u2063 integrity of the election\u2063 process.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200dresponse to the new law, Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee filed a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. He argued that the law specifically targets Harris County and violates the Texas \u200bConstitution, which prohibits laws that apply to only one county.<\/p>\n<h3>Legal Battle and Disappointment<\/h3>\n<p>Despite an initial victory for Harris County with a temporary injunction granted by a district judge, the Attorney General of Texas appealed \u2062the decision to the Texas Supreme Court.\u2064 The court denied Harris County&#8217;s request for emergency relief,\u200d allowing \u2062the law to\u2064 go \u2062into effect.<\/p>\n<p>Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee expressed disappointment\u2063 with the court&#8217;s \u200ddecision, \u2063stating that it allows the legislature to illegally target Harris County. He criticized Republican legislators for undermining local elections and failing to \u200cprovide assistance or additional funding for the transition.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062ruling has raised concerns about the impact on the \u200cupcoming November election and \u2064the challenges faced by those responsible for running\u2063 it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Supreme Court denied a request to block a new law, resulting in the Harris County Elections Administrators&#8217; office losing oversight of the November election. As a result, Clifford Tatum&#8217;s role as Election Administrator will be abolished, and his responsibilities will be transferred elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2009077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009076","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\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}