The county told a state district court judge that the applications were already mailed out and any ruling would be moot.
People wait outside the Bexar County Elections Department in San Antonio on Oct. 5, 2020. Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the county to stop them from mailing out voter registration forms to residents this fall.to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas.
Ryan Kercher, deputy chief of the special litigation division in the attorney general’s office, argued that the plan could result in ineligible people registering to vote. Local Republican activists slammed the Bexar County deal as an illegal waste of taxpayer money that would disproportionately register Democratic voters, citing past comments from the contracted firm’s leaders indicating support for Democratic candidates.
Democratic commissioners, backed by a county legal official, called Paxton’s legal threats misleading and unfounded.
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