Harris County claims it never adopted an annualized budget for 2022 and that it gave Constable Heap’s office a greater percentage of the total budget.
The comptroller’s analysis determined that Harris County reduced funds for law enforcement, but Harris County says the comptroller’s math is faulty.
More than a dozen GOP candidates are contesting the 2022 election and accusing the county of suppressing the rights of voters.
More than 2,000 ballots cast in Harris County under a court order keeping polls open late on election day must be reported separately from election totals.
Commissioners voted along party lines to move forward with legal action to block a state audit of county elections from 2020 through 2022.
The state’s highest civil court offered clarification of the Texas ban on officials soliciting unrequested mail ballot applications.
The appellate court, which has the final word in criminal cases, decided that Sheriff Zena Stephens cannot be prosecuted by the attorney general.
Calling election audits a “political trick,” the resolution instructs the county attorney to do everything possible to contest the Texas Secretary of State’s audit of the 2020 election.
While Gov. Abbott stated that an election audit started “months ago,” the attorney for Harris County has questioned that claim.
