A Harris County, Texas, official is facing six felony charges following an investigation of the county’s 2022 midterm election, the district attorney announced on Aug. 13.
Darryl Blackburn, a former employee of the now-defunct Harris County Election Administrator’s Office, has been charged with five counts of tampering with a government document and one count of theft by a public official, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said at a press conference.
“This individual was specifically assigned to see that paper was allocated properly in all of the polling locations,” Ogg said. “He had other responsibilities equally as important, but this is really the nuts and bolts of the election, the allocation of paper, and it is at the heart of much of what the problem was back in November of 2022.”…