Secretary of State David Whitley never received a confirmation vote for his post before the Texas Legislature gaveled out for two years. But not for secretary of state, especially concerning the issues the secretary of state has to deal with as it relates to voting, more particularly as it relates to 2020. Those tensions reignited as Whitley’s office claimed that 58,000 of the voters flagged were shown to have voted in at least one election since 1996, prompting President Donald Trump to renew unsubstantiated claims of rampant voter fraud. But the data used was deeply flawed and, within days, Whitley’s office began walking back the numbers. But the tone in the GOP-legislature sharply changed after Republicans lost more than a dozen seats in the 2018 midterms.

Source: thestar May 27, 2019 21:50 UTC