Video shows Texas GOP official seeking 'army' of volunteers to monitor polls in mostly Black and...

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A leaked video shows a man who identifies himself as a GOP official in Harris County, Texas seeking an "army" of volunteers to monitor polls in mostly Black and Hispanic Houston precincts.

Video shows Texas GOP official seeking ‘army’ of volunteers to monitor polls in mostly Black and...
The GOP official in Harris County looks to recruit 10,000 suburban Republican volunteers to serve as poll watchers in majority-Black and Latino neighborhoods in Houston, a video shows.
washingtonpost.com
5:30 PM · Apr 8, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/08/texas-voting-gop-poll-watchers/

In a leaked video of a recent presentation, a man who identifies himself as a GOP official in Harris County, Tex., says the party needs 10,000 Republicans for an “election integrity brigade” in Houston.

Then he pulls up a map of the area’s voting precincts and points to Houston’s dense, racially diverse urban core, saying the party specifically needed volunteers with “the confidence and courage to come down here,” adding, “this is where the fraud is occurring.”

The official cites widespread vote fraud, which has not been documented in Texas, as driving the need for an “army” of poll watchers to monitor voters at every precinct in the county.

Now the government accountability group Common Cause Texas — which published the footage Thursday — is raising the alarm that such an effort could instead serve to intimidate and suppress voters in metro Houston.

“It’s very clear that we’re talking about recruiting people from the predominantly Anglo parts of town to go to Black and Brown neighborhoods,” Anthony Gutierrez, the group’s executive director, told The Washington Post.

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