Elections
221. Fair Elections Procedures
We support the right of eligible voters to cast a ballot in each election once, but we oppose illegal voting, illegal assistance, or allowing votes by ineligible persons. We support:
a) Allowing, by open records request, a bit-by-bit forensic imaging of all electronic devices, including servers, at Central Counting immediately before and after each election.
b) Vigorous enforcement of all election laws as written, and we oppose any laws, lawsuits, and judicial decisions that make voter fraud very difficult to deter, detect, or prosecute.
c) Voter Photo ID.
d) Prohibition of remote electronic and internet voting for public office and any ballot measure.
e) That mail-in ballots must be requested and only granted to voters who cannot physically appear in-person, that the request must utilize the official application form only, and the ballots must arrive before 7 p.m. on Election Day (with the exception of APO addresses). Mail-in ballots should not be separated from their carrier envelopes until the polls close.
f) Felony status for willful violations of the Texas Election Code.
g) The constitutional authority of state legislatures to regulate voting, including disenfranchisement of convicted felons and the opposition to the federal takeover of our elections.
h) Changes to the appropriate sections of Texas law that would deny or cancel a homestead exemption, driver license, and License to Carry if the addresses on those documents DO NOT match the address on the voter’s registration.
i) Consolidating elections to Primary, Runoff, Special Called, and General Election days and locations.
j) Sequentially numbered and signed paper ballots that contain anti-counterfeiting measures and are accounted through strong chain of custody procedures.
k) An amendment to the Texas Constitution to restore authority to the Texas Attorney General to prosecute election crimes.
l) The ability for civil lawsuits to be filed for election fraud or failure of officials to follow the Texas Election Code.
m) Allowing trained poll watchers from anywhere in Texas with local party or candidate approval.
n) Creating processes that will allow rapid adjudication of election law violation disputes as they occur and before violations can be successfully perpetrated.
o) Direct prohibition on all types of preferential or ranked choice voting systems in ALL elections to include school board, municipal, county, statewide, and federal elections.
p) Striking Chapter 43.007 Countywide Polling Place Program in the Texas Election Code and requiring PRECINCT ONLY voting for any in-person voting with the using of paper poll books only.
q) The use of precinct-level, county-level, and state-level vote count verification processes and statistically based randomized audits.
r) Expanding write-once data memory cards from Central Counting Stations into precinct-level ballot counters (SB 1661, 88th Regular Session).
s) Having judges and DPS officers as election marshals that are trained in election law and making them available during elections to hear and resolve election-related cases, to include candidate eligibility.
t) Requiring persons who utilize the Reasonable Impediment Declaration to provide their thumbprints on the form for purposes of later verification.
u) Requiring the Texas Election Code to limit the number of voters that a voter assistant can assist to no more than three voters per election. This stipulation includes the entire duration of the voting period.
v) Requiring all State and Local Candidates to post a statement of their criminal history regarding any class A misdemeanors and felony offenses on their websites while they are running for public office