AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas election officials said Thursday night they were auditing the 2020 results in four large counties hours after former President Donald Trump, continuing to falsely claim the election was stolen, pressed Republican Gov. Trump won Texas last year by 5.5 percentage points, the closest margin of victory by a GOP presidential nominee in decades. The Texas Secretary of State’s Office did not say what prompted the announcement in an evening news release. The other county in the Texas review is booming Collin County, in suburban Dallas, which went for Trump last year. Abbott to audit the 2020 Texas election and, like clockwork, TX just initiated an audit of Harris County voters.

Source: thestar September 24, 2021 03:56 UTC