By Beth Biesel


  • Sign up to work as Election Judge, Clerk, Poll Watcher – leave no vacancies
  • Canvas your Precincts to purge voter rolls of illegitimate voters
  • Know the Texas Election Code, especially as a Poll Watcher
  • Get extra Poll Watcher training – work in pairs
  • Know and exercise your power as an Election Judge – same as District Court Judge
  • Press hard on local elections: City, County, School Board
  • Make the County Republican Party Chair do their job to protect elections for Republicans!
  • Bring Resolutions to your County Party Executive Meetings for

-sequentially numbered ballots

-voiding mail ballots properly

-printing vote result tapes at Early Voting closing

-handing over true audit logs

-new and improved training by County GOPs

-demand to see lease agreements with Election Management System Vendors

-no joint initiatives with Democrats

  • Ask your County Elections Department how many computer experts they have on staff – dig deeper to find out just who is running your elections
  • Raise questions about the credibility of the SOS audit/fraudit
  • Pressure Legislature to reinstate Felony charges in SB1
  • Attend SOS hearings on SB1 and submit comments on the rule making process
  • Demand that we get our original wish list –
  • Voter Registration database with restricted input/output access
  • Precinct only voting
  • Paper Ballots, sequentially numbered, hand marked, watermarked
  • Paper Poll Books for voters to sign
  • Basic Optical Scanner/Vote Counter only to tally vote results
  • Printed Vote Result Tapes – EV and ED
  • Limited Early Voting with no gap between EV and Election Day
  • Hand Counts allowed
  • NO WIRELESS, NO LAN, NO CELLULAR, NO COMPUTERS
  • 3rd Party Verification and Audit
  • Unique identifiable seals on ballot boxes
  • Vote Results delivered to Central Count on paper
  • Vote Results tabulated from paper record with calculator
  • Chain of Custody from start to finish
  • Unofficial Results called into SOS and Media
  • Poll Watcher protection:  standing to sue, ability to use video surveillance, no oath requirement, no requirement to be trained by SOS
  • Lawsuits can be filed in adjacent counties
  • Ask AG Paxton and Division Chief for Election Integrity, Jonathan White, to prosecute high profile cases. Putting a few folks in jail will be a good deterrent for other potential bad actors. Did you know Jonathan White told the House Elections committee that he did not need more $$, more staff, or more jurisdiction?
  • Elect candidates you trust