Emails: Texas' Election Audit Caught Collin and Tarrant County Officials Flat-Footed
Back in September, Texas state officials announced that they had “already begun” what was dubbed a “full forensic audit” into the November 2020 presidential elections that saw Joe Biden defeat former President Donald Trump.
Now, an investigation by the watchdog American Oversight has brought back communication records and documents that show election officials in Collin and Tarrant counties were caught on their heels when the audit was announced, and that they apparently had no idea what the process meant.
In one of the emails American Oversight obtained, Collin County Election Administrator Bruce Sherbet informed employees that the audit would kick off in November.
(Does the timing feel a bit funny to you? Well: “Governor Abbott, we need a ‘Forensic Audit of the 2020 Election,’” Trump wrote in an open letter to Abbott. “Texans know voting fraud occurred in some of their counties.” A little more than eight hours later, boom: an audit is born.)
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