Texas GOP Training 5,000 Election Workers, Poll Watchers to Improve Election Integrity

The Texas GOP says it is stepping up election integrity efforts in the state by training and recruiting election personnel watching the polls, according to a party spokesperson.

Since former U.S. President Donald Trump left office in 2021, the Lone Star State's Republican Party has trained over 5,000 election workers and poll watchers in the state, as part of an effort to "Set the goalpost" for improving election integrity statewide and beyond, party spokesperson James Wesolek told The Epoch Times in an interview in July.

The poll watchers would observe the conduct of the election and report irregularities and violations of the Election Code, if any, to election officials.

More than 5,000 delegates at the biennial Texas GOP Convention last month voted and passed a resolution that stated President Joe Biden "Was not legitimately elected" and that "Substantial" election fraud in key metropolitan areas influenced the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Biden.

Out of these eight selected priorities, the "Protect our Elections" legislative priority would guide the Texas legislature in passing measures that Republican delegates believe would improve election security in the state.

These measures include restoring felony penalties and enacting civil penalties for Election Code violations, requiring voter citizenship verification, restricting mail-in ballots to only the disabled, military personnel, and citizens that are out of state, reducing the time allowed for early voting, eliminating the three-day gap between early voting and election day, and establishing closed primaries in Texas.

"Despite the legislative priorities that we have, we're still out in the field training poll watchers and election workers every day so that we can trust and verify, make sure that our election integrity laws that are already on the book are followed, that the law is followed, that there are repercussions for when it happens," Wesolek said.

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