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Capital Highlights: State election audits announced

Capital Highlights: State election audits announced
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By Gary Borders


In a two-sentence press release, the secretary of state’s office announced an audit of four Texas counties – Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Collin – for the 2020 election.


The announcement came hours after former President Donald Trump called on Gov. Greg Abbott to add an election audit bill to the current special session of the Texas Legislature. Abbott has not responded thus far. A similar audit in Arizona’s Maricopa County recently ended and concluded Biden won that state’s most populous county, which provided him the winning margin there.


Trump won Texas by 5.6 percentage points in the 2020 election, although three of the four counties to be audited – Dallas, Tarrant and Harris – went for Biden. Officials from those counties told the Texas Tribune that “the development is an unnecessary partisan move aimed at sowing doubt in the results.”


The position of secretary of state has been vacant since the end of May, when Ruth Hughs resigned after the Texas Senate declined to take up her nomination.


McConaughey mulls bid for governor


Actor Matthew McConaughey said in a podcast recently that he is “measuring” a bid to unseat Abbott in next year’s governor’s race, though he has not indicated if he would run as a Republican, Democrat or independent. 


The Houston Chronicle reported the Oscar-winning actor made the comments on the “Set it Straight: Myths and Legends” podcast, which is hosted by a band called Midland. 


A recent poll by The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler showed McConaughey leading Abbott by 9 percentage points. Former congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’ Rourke is also considering a run. 


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