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  1. Texas Electoral Reforms

    QUESTION

    Analyze Texas Electoral Reforms

 

Subject Law and governance Pages 3 Style APA

Answer

The two existing electoral rules I would change are vote harvesting and giving more rights to poll watchers. Poll watchers are allowed but appointing authority on duty to observe each feature of the election. Thus, they can look out for electioneering, voter bribery, or interfering with voting equipment. Likewise, poll-watchers monitor the voting machines installation and testing, return the election officials prepare, records delivery from a precinct to a focal counting station, and vote tallying (Hajnal, Lajevardi, & Nielson, 2017). If they realize a violation, they must report it to the precinct’s election clerk. However, a poll-watcher cannot discuss that issue any further except if invited to do so by the location’s election judge. The poll watcher’s role became a pillar for persons fostering baseless accusations of election fraud in 2020. A reform would vastly improve the rights of persons sent by Republican or Democratic parties to witness ballot being cast.

 I would propose a reform to permit watchers to be near enough to observe and hear election officers. Thus, this reform will permit poll-watchers free movement anywhere votes are being tallied, and if a county official bars them, that official can lose his or her job. My reform proposal eliminates an existing provision that stops watchers from recording the procedures. Voters are not permitted to bring recording tools into a polling location; however, the watchers can present the recordings they did to the state’s office secretary if they trust it depicts proof of unlawful activity. But poll-watchers can report an election worker’s illegal activity, but they lack evidence. My reform proposal is meant to permit proof because the poll-watchers are the public’s eyes and eyes and from political parties.

Vote harvesting is another electoral law ii would propose for reforms. In several states such as Texas, both Democrats and Republicans practice vote harvesting, amassing absentee ballots from electorates already cast, signed, and sealed. Republicans are beginning to oppose this practice in states where absentee voting is becoming more frequent, like Texas (von Spakovsky, 2019). my proposal on this electoral reform it’s for the Texas legislature to make this practice a crime both from the individual getting paid and the persons doing the act. My proposal is targeted at the harvesters and not the electorates. This reform is meant to offer a strong incentive for persons to adhere to the law or a disincentive to persons who cheat. In the existing Texas electoral laws on vote harvesting, if a losing candidate mistrusts, he or she loses an election due to vote harvesting. The contestants are permitted to contest the election results. If they can demonstrate that vote harvesting occurred, they are qualified to gather the money paid for the unlawful practice plus the attorney’s fees.

 I would lobby the Texas legislature to present a bill that makes it a crime to provide person compensation pegged on the number of mail-in ballots they father amid local, state, or national elections. Likewise, this law would make it an offense for an individual to get compensation for gathering and mailing the ballots. An individual sentenced to the misdemeanor crime would face between thirty days and a year in prison and a $4000 fine. Repeat criminals would be charged with a state prison felony of a maximum fine of $10000 and a jail sentence of up to two years. this new reform I am proposing will not be applied to persons who collect ballots whereas doing campaign work like block-walking as long as their payment is not linked to the collection of the mail-in ballots. Someone getting paid to amass ballots causes voter fraud and likely voter intimidation.

In conclusion, the two electoral reforms discussed above advocate for free and fair elections through best practices that increase voter turnout and safeguard the integrity of the contests.

 

References

Hajnal, Z., Lajevardi, N., & Nielson, L. (2017). Voter identification laws and the suppression of minority voters. The Journal of Politics79(2), 363-379.

Von Spakovsky, H. (2019). Vote Harvesting: A Recipe for Intimidation, Coercion, and Election Fraud. Heritage Foundation Legal Memorandum, (253), 2019-10.

 

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