For Texas Republicans eager to portray an election system awash in fraud, a Gregg County commissioner’s race provides a case study of what happened when the dog finally caught the car.
All of which seemed to align the stars in the Gregg County case - a Republican establishment with compelling evidence of Democratic mail-in vote harvesting that subverted an election - into something of a unicorn constellation.Precinct 4 spreads south of Longview roughly into a triangle encompassing the rural southeastern portion of the county. As a predominantly minority district, elected offices are nearly always held by African-Americans.
“They would go out and get votes for you,” said Frank Supercinski, who has worked in Gregg County Democratic politics for nearly a half-century. “You ask elected officials if they’ve ever done it themselves, there’s no question about it. They’re afraid if they didn’t do it, they wouldn’t get elected.”
One of the men linked to the operation in 2018 explained he helped voters who avoided polls out of fear. “Absentee is a way for us to vote without being harassed, without losing a job, without getting kicked off the plantation,” Dewayne WardAnother of the group, Charlie Burns, Jr., acknowledged helping plenty of candidates.
A recount confirmed his five-vote margin. When a judge tossed Williams’s lawsuit challenging the election because of a blown deadline, that left a criminal prosecution as the remaining recourse.
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