Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is suing the Democrat stronghold of Bexar County over a plan to send unsolicited voter registration forms to unregistered voters.
Bexar County is the Lone Star state’s fourth most populous county and home to San Antonio, voted for Joe Biden in 2020 by a margin of 18 points.
On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned that the effort sought to cast the county’s voter registration plan as a means of registering noncitizens to vote.
County leadership defied Paxton on Tuesday when the board of commissioners voted 3 to 1 to mail out the registration forms, The Texas Tribune reported.
In a suit filed on Wednesday morning in Bexar County District Court, Paxton is demanding that state judges block the registration drive.
“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,” Paxton said in a statement on Wednesday.
Paxton argued on Monday and in his filing on Wednesday that this effort was illegal — a conclusion based on his successful challenge of a Harris County vote-by-mail effort in 2020 which he has credited with winning the state for Trump.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the private-sector contractor whose company won the contract to send out the registration forms told commissioners that the returned forms are checked against state data from the Department of Public Safety and federal Social Security Administration records — two steps which he said would keep noncitizens from being registered, according to The Hill.
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