Attorneys rest their case in Harris County election trial to throw out November results

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This is a bogus lawsuit. I was working voter protection in a neighboring county that also used county wide voting. We had a coupld of precincts that were understaffed due to COVID and we had voters go to a nearby voing center. This case is really bogus

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/harris-county-election-lawsuit-attorneys-rest-18285655.php

After seven days of questioning witnesses, attorneys will make closing arguments Thursday morning in the trial to throw out Harris County's November election results in a contested judicial race with a 2,743-vote margin.

GOP candidate Erin Lunceford lost her race in November to incumbent 189th District Judge Tamika Craft. Lunceford filed a lawsuit one month later, asking a judge to order a new election based on the argument that ballot paper shortages at some polls on Election Day resulted in thousands of her supporters being denied the opportunity to cast a ballot.

Harris County has countywide voting, so voters could cast their ballot at any of 782 polling locations that day.

Lunceford's attorneys allege 29 of those polls ran out of paper. During the trial, no voters came forward to testify that they were unable to cast a ballot.

Another 20 GOP candidates have pending legal challenges similar to Lunceford's; their fate could depend on whether her team is successful in persuading Judge David Peeples, a visiting judge from Bexar County, to throw out her election.

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1. DFW resident here

All these Judges rewriting election proceedings and already gerrymandered districts
Makes me think that Texas will never have a fair election again.
Gov Hot Wheels, Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton aren’t going to just stop and we can’t vote them out.
They have been doing it for decades and votes are just being thrown out.
Don’t know how we can pull this out of the hole we are in.

I don’t know what it’s going to take but what we have been doing isn’t working.

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2. Please post the outcome of this case when it happens.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Wondering why Texas Republicans are trying to overturn elections in our largest and most diverse cou

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3. Poppy is attending the final arguments

Poppy is a member of the local democratic lawyers group.

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4. Peeples is the judge who stayed the Texas abortion law last week.

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5. Both sides rest in trial to decide to throw out Harris County election results

This lawsuit is bogus. No voter was denied the right to vote.

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https://abc13.com/harris-county-november-2022-election-results-trail-for-erin-lunceford/13630464/

-- Both sides rested on Thursday afternoon in a trial that will decide whether to throw out election results from Harris County's 2022 November election.

The judge said he would not have a ruling for at least another month. It's an unprecedented legal effort, and it's the first of several lawsuits just like it......

Democrats have said there's no proof those problems impacted the election.

This case also has a narrower margin than any of the other contested elections, so its verdict could play a big role in whether others go forward.

"Really, at the end of the day, the main goal for Republicans here is to win the court of public opinion, not in the court of law," Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University, said. "They know they're going to lose these cases in the court of law, but if they can maintain at least among Republican primary voters and others the narrative that there was something that went wrong in the 2022 elections and that potentially cost Republicans electoral contest, it'll be a winning gambit for them."