Nah, folks have long forgotten. Before all the brouhaha of the six battleground states using COVID-19 as a pretext to circumvent state legislatures and amend state election laws in advance of the 2020 Presidential Election there was TEXAS.
Folks probably never knew (or forgot) the Texas Secretary of State, Elections Division issued waivers from following state election laws the day after the March 2016 Presidential Primary. That waiver was subsequently followed by proposed, last minute rules changes in the weeks prior to the start of early voting in the November 2016 Presidential Elections.
Let's recap and take a peek at the evidence aka documents.
Dated March 2, 2016 --ONE DAY AFTER the March 1, 2016 Presidential Primary the Elections Division sent this email waiving the partial manual recount provision of the Texas Election Code:
This is the article I wrote and was published in August 2016, just a few short weeks before the start of early voting in the November 2016 Presidential Election:
The Office of the Texas Secretary of State has proposed new rules, repeal of existing rules and amendments to the Texas Election Code and Texas Administrative Code that could go into effect as early as September 11, 2016.In the August 12 , 2016 edition of the Texas Register the Office of the Texas Secretary of State, Elections Division proposes to repeal and replace 1 TAC §81.52, concerning the use of precinct ballot counters and eliminating the requirement for a continuous audit log printer to be attached to the precinct ballot counter during the early voting by personal appearance period.
Changes to existing requirements pertaining to the printing of “significant election events”, including their date and time stamps printed to the audit log are also proposed.
Interested persons may submit written comments on the proposed repeal and new rule to the Elections Division, Office of the Texas Secretary of State, P.O. Box 12060, Austin, Texas 78711-2060
Texas Register v.41 No. 33,... by Yvonne Larsen
