RELEASE: RPT Chair Candidate Matt Mackowiak Releases Detailed Election Integrity Plan 5/21

For Immediate Release                              Media Contact:      Matt Mackowiak

5/21/24 [email protected] 

RPT Chair Candidate Matt Mackowiak Releases Detailed Election Integrity Plan

Gold Standard Effort Will Be Up and Running in 60 Days 

AUSTIN, TX — Travis County GOP chairman and active candidate for Texas GOP chair Matt Mackowiak today released a comprehensive Election Integrity plan that he will begin implementing on Day One after he is elected chair at the Republican Party of Texas convention May 23-25 in San Antonio.

“We should make it easy to legally vote, and impossible to illegally vote, and Texas has existing state laws to do that,” said Mackowiak. “It is the job of the Republican Party of Texas to protect our general election candidates by ensuring state laws are followed and actively litigating to protect our rights and election integrity. No other RPT chair candidate has released a detailed, comprehensive, actionable election integrity plan. This will be an urgent priority when I am elected chair.” 

Mackowiak commits to executing the following plan for Election Integrity:

> Raise $1M to fund the effort

> Announce a leadership team to include leading election law expert Chris Gober and former 3^rd Court of Appeals Judge Mike Toth as co-chairs

> Gober will build the substantive election law policies

> Toth will lead the recruitment, training, and management of our volunteer army of election lawyers

>  Seek bicameral agreement to urgently pass the SAFE Act in a Special Session to ensure no illegal alien can vote illegally in 2024

o Counties can give social security numbers to illegal aliens and without this law, they may be able to vote in 2024

o This bill passed the Texas Senate in 2023, but it did not receive a vote in the Texas House

o There may be a solution through the Texas Secretary of State’s office, which we will urgently explore

> Recruit enough volunteer lawyers to cover all 254 counties for early voting through election day to advise candidates, election workers, and local party officials, and immediately respond to election law complaints

> Recruit thousands of pollwatchers, pollworkers, and election judges and alternates to cover as much of the state as possible

“There is too much distrust in our election process, so I look forward to playing a significant role in reforming Texas’s election laws and building a sustainable election integrity program that helps guarantee the fair and transparent elections that Texans deserve,” said Chris Gober, CEO of the Gober Group.

“No issue is more crucial than securing safe and fair elections,” said Mike Toth, former Justice, Texas Third Court of Appeals. “Without election integrity, our political system is fundamentally broken. I am proud to be a part of the solution for Texans, who want their voice to count and their voice to be heard.”

“I am proud to have released the only comprehensive election integrity plan of the candidates running for RPT chair,” said Mackowiak. “We have a highly credible leadership team that will hit the ground running. We will partner with the Trump campaign and the RNC’s excellent Texas state director for election integrity Valerie McConahay who we have spoken with and believe is doing great work currently that we can build on. Most election law violations are one of three things: Mail Ballot fraud, illegal voting, or voter assistance fraud. We will focus our resources in these specific areas.”

Mackowiak has taken election integrity seriously in his seven years leading the Travis County GOP, taking steps to support and demand recounts in close races, suing the County Clerk to force action and negotiation, and securing the hand counting of mail ballots in the March 2024 primary for the first time ever. In the joint primary contract for Travis County, Mackowiak also secured these important victories:

> Travis County Elections will provide configuration reports with a summary of ballots cast for each vote center for both early vote and election day

>  This increases transparency of the early vote tabulation and enables auditability of all election results

> Travis County Elections will provide Cast Vote Record (CVR) results report by polling location (previously they were only provided by precinct and countywide)

> This also increases transparency of the early vote tabulation and enables auditability of all election results (without individual vote location results in countywide voting, a true audit was previously impossible)

> Travis County Elections will provide ballot style reports to verify that Travis County does not have the same issues that Williamson County had with voters being given the wrong ballot

> This increases our ability to monitor accuracy of the election process

> Pending a Secretary of State office decision, Travis County Elections will add a redundant process for voter check in with a paper roster as backup, in case the e-poll books have problems as they did previously in Dallas County

> Additionally, TCRP worked with the Secretary of State’s office to develop an improved hand counting method that will increase the speed and accuracy of hand counting (which will now occur for mail ballots)

“As your next Texas GOP chair, we will make Election Integrity an urgent priority, and I look forward to working with Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton, and the Texas Legislature in this area. We will not let illegal voting threaten our state’s future.”

Due to the outstanding work of Attorney General Paxton and his team in 2020, leading up to the election Texas won all statewide election-related lawsuits and prevented proposed state law violations like Harris County mailing one million unsolicited mail ballots, and ballot harvesting.

Learn more about our campaign at: makeRPTgreatagain.com.

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