Look, Texas is about to turn the whole voting system upside down, and honestly, it’s looking real messy. Right before some major midterm elections that could change who's running things in Washington, Texas is getting a brand new boss to oversee the voting booths. The current Secretary of State, Jane Nelson, is packing her bags and leaving by July 17, and word on the street is Governor Greg Abbott is about to hand the keys over to a 34-year-old state lawmaker and megachurch preacher named Nate Schatzline.

Now, here’s the catch: this guy Schatzline has zero actual experience running an election. He’s never run a single polling place, he’s never managed a ballot box, and he’s never even touched a county voter database. But he’s the frontrunner for the top job anyway. The local election workers who actually do the heavy lifting in our neighborhoods are already panicking, and they’ve been circulating a warning report about what happens if this dude takes over.

According to Chris McGinn, the head of the Texas Association of County Election Officials, Schatzline isn’t trying to play nice like the old bosses did. He’s coming in as a "disruptor." The old-school officials tried to keep things smooth, keep the peace between parties, and protect local workers from political drama. But Schatzline is highly ideological and answers to the loudest grassroots voices. He wants to turn the state office into a heavy-handed enforcement agency, which means a lot more rules and a lot more head-scratching for the people trying to vote.

Let's keep it 100: when you put someone in charge of a massive system who has never actually worked the ground level, things are bound to break. The county election officials are warning that Schatzline might start dropping rules and directives that are straight-up impossible to execute on the ground. When things get chaotic at the polling places, it's the regular folks in the neighborhood who end up stuck in long lines or getting turned away because the rules changed overnight.

Schatzline hasn't been quiet about his views, either. He's fully aligned with Trump's claims about the election system being rigged. In a video interview last year, he went off about how mail-in ballots are full of fraud and how the voting machines are "screwed up," saying it’s "not even debatable." If you're going to put someone in charge of the machines, you'd think they should actually believe the machines work, but apparently, that’s not how the game is played in Austin.

Lately, Schatzline has made voting his main hustle. He didn’t push any voting bills during his first term, but in this last session, he authored or co-authored at least five of them. He’s also skipping out on running for his house seat again, which makes it pretty clear he’s clearing his schedule to take this big-time state job and push his agenda from the top down.