Hall, a Christian constitutional conservative, says Texans have a vast list of priorities that need to be addressed, and for him, election integrity is at the top.
"We have no way of knowing that the outcomes that are announced by the government eventually were really the result of the intent of the voters," he explains. "That happens because there's such a long gap between the time and place that individuals cast their vote and when they get assembled in a final answer in Austin."
Votes change hands from the precincts to the county to the state, with no system of checks and balances between each level.
"The problem is created by the current policy that we have of having an early voting period and then an Election Day," Sen. Hall submits. "There's a three-day gap in between the early voting and Election Day, and [it's impossible] to know what the vote is in the current system."
Considering that Democrats have been caught putting votes into machines before voting even started, his plan includes the use of a zero tape before the polls open on the first day of voting and at the end of each day of the voting period "to prove that there are no pre-set votes in the machine."
He is also in favor of paper ballots that can be scanned by a non-computer optical reader for tabulation.
21 states have an in-person voting period with no early voting.
