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Oct 20 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Meeting of elections commission in #Houston #HarrisCounty #Texas is about to begin.
Commission includes Harris County Judge, County Clerk, Tax Assessor Collector, and the chairs of the county's Democratic and Republican parties.
Note: the clerk and tax assessor collector, both elected officials, would have been in charge of elections in the county, but in 2020 commissioners court voted 3-2 to use an appointed elections administrator instead.
Background: thetexan.news/harris-county-…
Newly appointed EA Clifford Tatum (replaced Longoria) is giving a report.

FYI: earlier this week Texas SOS requested written plans to prevent problems found in the 2020 election. thetexan.news/texas-secretar…
Tatum says early voting & ballot by mail results will be reported at 7 pm on election night, and then every hour as results are tabulated.
Says number of registered voters has reached 2.5 million.
99 EV locations will be throughout the county.
References the Fors Marsh evaluation (county did this instead of an audit of the 2022 primary.)
Our story from July: thetexan.news/harris-county-…
Tatum says he's been working with the county's universal services to ensure the website will work.

Universal services has struggled over the past year with hackers and maintaining systems...
And, ironically, the livestream for which Universal Services is responsible, is glitching again.
Tatum says best case scenario, results could be available as early as 1:30 am 11/9.
The bipartisan hope is that the 2022 primary scenario will not be repeated. thetexan.news/harris-county-…
County GOP Chair Cindy Siegel notes she did not receive the final report from Fors Marsh, Hidalgo said she only received it yesterday although it was dated August. Siegel notes she & her team were not interviewed until August by FM.
EA Tatum says without the county's proposed tax increase he will not have funds for 12 new positions planned.

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Oct 21
🧵Thread on the gaslighting taking place regarding @TXsecofstate Forensic Audit Division (FAD) letter to #HarrisCounty Elections Administrator Clifford Tatum in #Houston.
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The 15-page letter w/docs was sent Tuesday, but someone leaked it to a reporter who then posted 2 pages and misled the public about its full contents. That person instead focused on the Texas Secretary of State sending the inspectors to Harris County, but...

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Oct 20
Today the Harris County Elections Commission will meet at 1:00 pm. There's only one item on the agenda:
"Request for a discussion with the Harris County Elections Administrator regarding
logistics and operations for the November 8, 2022 elections."
ICYMI: @TXsecofstate sent a letter to the county on Tuesday outlining initial findings in the ongoing forensic audit of the 2020 general election and asking for the elections admin to respond w/plans to prevent similar problems in #election2022
@TXsecofstate Our story here: thetexan.news/texas-secretar…
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Oct 20
Lots of confusing terms used in #Texas politics: to clarify, a tax rate that is above the "no-new-revenue" rate means rate payers will pay more next year than last year. #Taxes
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But the "no-new-revenue" rate does not necessarily mean the government entity will collect the same amount; in most cases next year they will collect more revenue due to new properties added to the tax rolls.
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Even if the tax rate is lower next year than this year, if your appraised value is higher, you will pay more in taxes this year over last year.
#Houston #HarrisCounty
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Oct 19
Happening now: Meeting of the Kemah #Texas city council.

Allegations against Mayor Joiner on the agenda while Mayor wants to censure all 5 council members. Image
Background: thetexan.news/kemah-city-cou…
Mayor leaves dais to speak as “a citizen.” Short dispute over whether he can do this- an attempt to prevent him by council, motion fails. He’s speaking now “as a citizen “
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Oct 18
Harris County #Houston special meeting and public hearing on tax increase now beginning w/livestream here: harriscountytx.gov/Government/Cou…
The court's 3 Democrats are present, the 2 Republicans are not. They have quorum to vote on anything except approving the tax increase.
Today they must decide whether or not to post notice of a compromise tax rate. So far, the only rate they've posted is the original tax rate the two Republicans object to.
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Oct 18
That was yesterday's special meeting; today's special meeting is scheduled for 2:30. The only tax increase rates posted are the original rate proposed along w/the "no new revenue" and "voter approval rate."

Those wishing to speak must sign up 2 hours before the meeting.
In addition, commissioners court will take up an agenda of 242 items. Agenda & Notice of Public Hearing on Tax Increase are available here: agenda.harriscountytx.gov
Just fyi, quorum is three for anything except approving a tax increase- that requires 4 members present. Even without the 2 R's, commissioners court can vote to post notice of a different tax rate proposal.
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