Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday made good on his promise to sue Bexar County Commissioners Court for green lighting a program to mail voter-registration applications to residents.
Ken Paxton has ramped up investigations into purported voter fraud as the 2024 election draws closer.
to the Commissioners Court threatening legal action if the county approved a contract to hire an outside firm to distribute voter-registration forms and postage-paid return envelopes to unregistered voters. Paxton, a Republican, argued that felons, non-citizens and others ineligible to cast ballots were likely to end up with the forms and break the law by submitting them. on Tuesday to let Civic Government Solutions to mail 200,000 registration packets.
During Tuesday's three-hour court meeting, Larry Roberson, chief of the civil division of the Bexar County District Attorney’s office, told commissioners that past case law showed counties have legal authority to distribute registration forms. He dismissed Paxton's claims to the contrary as"misleading at best.
Last month, Paxton's office approved a raid targeting South Texas Latinx Democratic organizers as part of a probe into election-fraud claims.Since 1986, the SA Current has served as the free, independent voice of San Antonio, and we want to keep it that way. Becoming an SA Current Supporter for as little as $5 a month allows us to continue offering readers access to our coverage of local news, food, nightlife, events, and culture with no paywalls.
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