{"id":106100,"date":"2022-12-21T20:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106100"},"modified":"2022-12-21T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:08:09","slug":"texas-report-on-voter-fraud-concludes-elections-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106100","title":{"rendered":"Texas Report on Voter Fraud Concludes Elections Secure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/12\/19\/texas-elections-2020-audit-john-scott-secretary-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">TX Tribune:<\/a> &#8220;Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, there was neither widespread voter fraud nor other serious issues in Texas\u2019 2020 elections, according to an audit of four of Texas\u2019 largest counties released Monday evening by Secretary of State John Scott\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/elections\/fad\/2020-Audit-Full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">359-page report<\/a>&nbsp;did find some \u201cirregularities,\u201d it nonetheless reinforced what election experts and monitors \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/11\/01\/texas-elections-john-scott-secretary-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including Scott<\/a>, the state\u2019s chief election official \u2014 have routinely said: that the 2020 contest was not riddled with widespread fraud, and Texans should be confident that future elections will be similarly secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen the Texas Election Code and local procedures are followed, Texas voters should have a very high level of confidence in the accuracy of the outcome of Texas elections,\u201d the report stated. \u201cWhen procedures are followed, results of the election are trustworthy. Indeed, in most cases, the audit found that the counties followed their procedures and clearly documented their activities.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TX Tribune: &#8220;Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, there was neither widespread voter fraud nor other serious issues in Texas\u2019 2020 elections, according to an audit of four of Texas\u2019 largest counties released Monday evening by Secretary of State John Scott\u2019s office. While the&nbsp;359-page report&nbsp;did find some \u201cirregularities,\u201d it nonetheless reinforced what election experts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106101,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106100\/revisions\/106101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}