The charges allege that he and his cohorts cast mail-in ballots for able-bodied voters, falsely proclaiming the voters were disabled.
On Wednesday afternoon, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of four people allegedly connected to a vote harvesting scheme in the state's 2018 Democratic primary election, including a Democratic victor of that primary.
Brown won the March 6, 2018 Democratic primary by just five votes. His victory was secured by 787 mail-in ballots cast in his precinct. Over one-third of those ballots were from individuals claiming a disability,The high number of voters claiming a disability raised suspicions of fraud since only 2.5 percent of mail-in voters in the county's three other precincts claimed a disability on their own mailed ballots.
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