We are just 70 days from November’s election, and some races are tightening in Texas. State Republican officials have focused on what they call election integrity.
“Closeness matters. The way to think of it simply — you go to a baseball game, the score is 10 to nothing, and the umpire makes a bad call, and it costs you a run, you will walk away and say, ‘My team wasn’t very good.’ If the score is extremely close, zero to zero, and then a bad call by the umpire, then you begin to blame, not your team, but the umpire,” Rice University Political Science Professor Bob Stein said.
Stein has studied elections for decades and was an expert witness in the state’s election audit…