Citizens Want Investigation

Wichita County has had its share of election hiccups when it comes to elections. Election ballots have had missing candidates. Citizens have received ballots for other municiplaities. It appears now election laws may have been violated.

 A group of citizens have visited with the Assistant District Attorney in the Civil Division and are now seeking an investigation into the County Clerk’s office.

Back Story

 While Wichita County went for President Trump in 2020’s election, citizens started to complain on social media about local races and results. Eventually small groups of citizens learned of eachother and would come together to discover many were suspicious of local election results. A video release from Captain Seth Keshel concerning election irregularities is the spark that set the flame afire. The video specifically deals with Wichita County. https://electionfraud20.org/seth-keshel-reports/texas/#wichita-county.

In an effort to prove Seth Keshel wrong the citizens started an investigation. What they stumbled across was not what they expected. The most concerning issue found was the WFISD School Bond Election. As it stands now, the evidence they have shows that the bond did not pass. Infact they show more votes than voters

Citizen Probe

Citizens have been trying to obtain all election data from November 2020 for little more than a year now. The County Clerk’s office has not been fully cooperative in providing all data. On August 17th of this year Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released an opinion known as KP-0411. This opinion solidifies the right of the people to cast vote records, ballots and all other election data. https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/2022/kp-0411.pdf

Immediately following Ken Paxton’s announcement citizens started to request cast vote records and access to the ballots for review. The events that followed would eventually unveil what appears to be willful misconduct and violation of the law. It is important to note that the legal requirement to hold these election records is for 22 months. Electronic Voting System Procedures Advisory (state.tx.us)

Citizens started receiving responses for the CVR requests either in email format or via a disc sent in the mail. The responses were oddly enough coming from the District Attorney’s office, even though previous election records had not. {That raises an eyebrow or two}. What they received was not what they asked for. Cumlative reports were provided to the citizens in place of cast vote records. The District Attorney’s office said the County Clerk provided the cumulative reports to them for CVR requests.

The dust has settled and the outcome is not satisfactory. Cast vote records along with other election data were disposed of approximately 8 months ago. While the County Clerk’s office has yet to respond to any other requests directly, the DA’s office has. According to the DA’s office ballots will be made available as soon as the County Clerk has processes and procedures in place. Citizens have little confidence in what the DA’s office has confirmed. The skeptism is understandable considering what has already happened.

What is the Evidence?

There appears to be a collection of documentation in formats from email, video, and audio that will show the County Clerk’s office has been less than compliant and forthright in executing not only election laws but very possibly public information laws of both state and federal guidelines.

Conclusion

The current County Clerk announced she would not run for re-election, but that doesn’t hold this office accountable. The voter registration election supervisor claims she didn’t know what cast vote records were. Will she also claim she didn’t know all election data was to remain available for 22 months? I’m not sure how anyone gets a raise without knowing the scope of their job after almost 20 years. Where is the accountability?

The people should be outraged even if these shenanigans are nothing more than poor job performance. A nice retirement on the people’s dime and a pay increase off the backs of the citizens of Wichita County hardly scream accountability.