Monitoring of the election process is nothing new, but it has been heightened in the past couple of years as election integrity has been called into question.
"This is all occurring because there's a concern about vote fraud, especially driven by Republicans' fears that this is something that has been pernicious in the 2020 election," Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, explained.
In addition, they said the office of the attorney general would be sending a task force to Harris County on Election Day, though the details about it are vague. "This is time after time the Secretary of State's Office and state officials have shown that they cannot be trusted with Harris County elections, and so in order to avoid any interference or disruption, we've asked the DOJ to come in to be that objective and neutral third party," Christian Menefee, the Harris County Attorney, said.
"Clifford Tatum himself has praised the work of our inspectors and trainers in helping Harris County, so it doesn't make sense that the County Attorney is still pushing the false narrative that our office is there to interfere with or disrupt the election process in Harris County. The facts, and the public statements from the Elections Administrator himself, demonstrate the exact opposite.