Tarrant County’s Republican-led election integrity task force briefing was delayed at a public meeting on June 9. County commissioners were scheduled to hear a briefing on the task force’s work, but Sheriff Bill Waybourn and District Attorney Phil Sorrells, who oversee the unit, didn’t show up due to short notice.
Election Integrity Task Force
The task force was created in 2023 to make it easier for the public to report voter fraud. As of 2024, the task force was made up of one sheriff’s investigator and three attorneys from the district attorney’s office. The unit investigates election integrity complaints sent to either office.
Commissioner Alisa Simmons, a Democrat who requested the briefing, questioned the elected officials’ absences, saying the task force’s work should be “transparent, accountable and subject to public review.” Simmons wants to know what the task force has completed since its creation and how many complaints or cases it has reviewed.
Spokesperson Robbie Hoy confirmed that Waybourn couldn’t be present due to the short notice. The office was asked to “provide a lot of information which we didn’t have readily available and would have taken time to gather,” Hoy said.
There have been no verified reports of widespread voter fraud in Tarrant County. In February, a group of about 50 volunteers hand-counted the roughly 95,000 ballots cast in the Texas Senate District 9 runoff election, and the audit did not find any errors.
Original reporting: Fort Worth Report — read the source article.
