GOP pursues harsher penalties for poll workers in voting crackdown By Nick Corasaniti New York Times,Updated May 16, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend Isabel Longoria, election administrator for Harris County, Texas, posed at the elections warehouse in Houston.MICHAEL STARGHILL JR./NYT AUSTIN, Texas â Anita Phillips has been an election judge in Texas for 17 years, responsible for managing a precinct in Waco, a city of roughly 135,000 people. But over the last four years, the civic duty she prized has become arduous. Harassment by partisan poll watchers has grown increasingly caustic, s...