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Commentary
By Mo Saiidi on September 6, 2023
Hand-count election: What you need to know

I was elected in 2020 as the Gillespie County Republican Party Chair and have been working closely with our county officials to conduct the elections.

During this period, I never heard any allegation, suggestion, rumors or evidence to indicate election fraud or irregularities in our community.

Now, all of a sudden a group of activists are calling for hand-count election. What happened and what started this?

The Fredericksburg Tea Party sponsored a town hall meeting in early August during which a gr...

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