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From the Washington Examiner: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the populous Bexar County on Wednesday, alleging its governing body planned to illegally mail out voter registration forms to residents who did not ask for them.
Paxton said recipients of the voter registration applications could include people who are ineligible to vote, such as noncitizens, and that mailing them the forms could increase the risk of voter fraud in the election.
Bexar County includes San Antonio and is one of Texas’s Democratic strongholds. While former President Donald Trump won Texas overall by nearly six points, President Joe Biden won Bexar by 18 points.
In the complaint Paxton filed against the Bexar County Commissioners Court, the Republican state attorney general noted that the court voted to authorize spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for Civic Government Solutions to send the voter registration applications out to Bexar residents.
“Despite being warned against adopting this blatantly illegal program that would spend taxpayer dollars to mail registration applications to potentially ineligible voters, Bexar County has irresponsibly chosen to violate the law. This program is completely unlawful and potentially invites election fraud. It is a crime to register to vote if you are ineligible,” Paxton declared in a statement on social media, as he announced the lawsuit.
🚨 BREAKING: Despite being warned against adopting this blatantly illegal program that would spend taxpayer dollars to mail registration applications to potentially ineligible voters, Bexar County has irresponsibly chosen to violate the law. This program is completely unlawful… https://t.co/H7QOGFnJUo
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) September 4, 2024
The Texas Republican Party reacted to Paxton’s announcement, writing, “Thank you @KenPaxtonTX for fighting every day for honest elections! The future of Texas and our nation depends on the integrity of the process, and we must not fail to deliver. Get ’em!”
Thank you @KenPaxtonTX for fighting every day for honest elections! The future of Texas and our nation depends on the integrity of the process, and we must not fail to deliver. Get ’em! https://t.co/0nYv23J5hr
— Texas GOP (@TexasGOP) September 4, 2024
Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison wrote, “Thank you, @KenPaxtonTX. I am also calling for #Txlege to take bold action when political subdivisions brazenly engage in illegal election interference by cutting off all state funding to them. We must enforce our laws and protect our elections.”
Thank you, @KenPaxtonTX.
I am also calling for #Txlege to take bold action when political subdivisions brazenly engage in illegal election interference by cutting off all state funding to them.
We must enforce our laws and protect our elections. https://t.co/gcdC4mtE6b
— Brian Harrison (@brianeharrison) September 4, 2024
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