Texas Tribune: Texas Rangers find no evidence of efforts to sway 2022 election results in Harris County

Joshua Fetcher of the Texas Tribune reports on the investigation of Harris County’s 2022 election.

Investigators with the Texas Rangers and the Harris County District Attorney’s office found no evidence of attempts to sway the county’s November 2022 election, officials said Tuesday.

Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans have heavily criticized Harris County officials for how the state’s most populous county ran that election. Some polling locations saw shortages of paper ballots and malfunctioning voting equipment. Some locations opened later in the day, resulting in longer wait times for voters.

Those irregularities drove more than 20 local Republican candidates to contest the election results — and Republican lawmakers in the Texas Legislature to force the county to dissolve its elections administration office.

A criminal probe initiated by Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg into irregularities around the 2022 election found no evidence of a campaign to suppress voter turnout or influence the election’s outcome, officials said Tuesday.

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