Joint primary could fix this
Election issues
Regarding “Why some voters faced challenges voting in the 2022 Texas primary,” (March 7): Holding a joint primary would solve some of the problems experienced in the recent Harris County primary election. When both parties share machines and personnel (like in regular elections) the problems of machine allocation and election clerk availability are greatly eased. It might even save money.
Waller County holds its primaries jointly and experiences little, if any, resulting intra-party rivalry. Take a note from your smaller neighbor to the west. Randle Bain, Houston
Regarding “Longoria resigns as Harris County elections chief, takes the blame for bungled primary elections,” (March
8): County Judge Lina Hidalgo has once again proven how partisan she is. Instead of claiming that Republicans (and President Donald Trump) are liars, she needs to be doing something to restore faith in elections. Maybe Democrats should stop pushing mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots should be for eligible voters who are physically unable to go in person to vote or are out of the country (military service or other travel).
There is no reasonable or legitimate excuse for the voters of Harris County, whether Republican or Democrat, to wait days or weeks for election results with “missing ballots” showing up days later. Ten thousand missing votes is not Republican hysteria. Please use your office to promote unity and voter confidence, not more division. Mollie Lea, Spring
Regarding “Editorial: Sorry, Dems. Republicans aren't to blame for Harris County election woes,” (March 9): I find it troubling that our recent local election fared no better with voting issues. Republicans have long suspected that the previous presidential election was stolen, and we all had high hopes all the drama from voting would revert to normalcy, yet here we can't declare a winner when the polls close. My biggest gripe is, if I were to do something boneheaded like this, I would expect my boss to fire me immediately. So why is she leaving July 1: a reward for screwing up an election? Mike Egan, Spring