Texas Democrats rip Republican secretary of state for 'multihour lines just to cast a ballot'

HOUSTON — Texas Democrats are seething after a lack of preparedness from election officials caused large swaths of voters across the state, from Houston and Dallas to San Antonio and San Marcos, to wait more than five hours to cast a ballot on Super Tuesday.

Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa issued a blistering statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning directed at Texas’s Republican Secretary of State Ruth Ruggero Hughs and “Texas election officials across the board.”