Ken Paxton said the warrants were part of what his office described as an election integrity probe. But LULAC leaders believe it's a 'direct attempt to suppress the Latino vote through intimidation.'
Ashley Killough and Ed LavanderaA prominent Latino group is calling on the DOJ to investigate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for what it calls "voter intimidation."
The Justice Department confirmed to CNN it received the letter, but a spokesperson declined to comment further. Neither Paxton's office nor the district attorney's office responded to requests from CNN on Monday about the investigation and its details.He took up the voter fraud cause after President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, filing a federal lawsuit to overturn the results in four key swing states. The U.S. Supreme Court threw that suit out, and the State Bar of Texas sued Paxton in 2022 for misrepresenting claims of substantial voter fraud.
At a news conference Monday outside the attorney general's office in San Antonio, members of LULAC and Democratic activists condemned the raids and criticized Paxton for launching what they called a campaign of intimidation against Latino voters. Castellano told CNN's Laura Coates on Monday night that her phone was taken during the search of her home.
Under Texas law, it is illegal for a person who is not a relative or roommate of a voter to deliver that voter's mail ballot unless the assistance is disclosed on the ballot. Being paid for "vote harvesting" is also illegal in Texas. The affidavit also says Frio County election administrator Sylvia Santos was among those under "spot surveillance" by the attorney general's office. It says the subject of the search warrant was seen receiving "what appeared to be sample ballots from Santos behind the election office on February 15, 2024," suggesting those could have been used to indicate the subject's preferred candidate to voters.
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