{"id":2337080,"date":"2024-09-05T08:24:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paxton-sues-bexar-county-after-warning-about-election-fraud-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T08:38:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:38:45","slug":"paxton-sues-bexar-county-after-warning-about-election-fraud-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paxton-sues-bexar-county-after-warning-about-election-fraud-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxton sues Bexar County after warning about election fraud &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpaxton-sues-bexar-county-after-warning-about-election-fraud-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2337080&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Texas Attorney\u200d General Ken\u200b Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Bexar County after the\u2064 county&#8217;s officials proceeded with a \u200bcontroversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fridays-fun-fraud-fact-mysterious-spike-in-incomplete-nv-voter-registrations-13372-with-invalid-birthdates-and-casinos-and-temporary-rv-parks-as-a-home-address\/\" title=\"FRIDAY&#039;S FUN FRAUD FACT: Mysterious Spike in Incomplete NV Voter Registrations - 13,372 with Invalid Birthdates and Casinos and Temporary RV Parks as a Home Address\">voter registration<\/a> plan despite his \u200cwarnings\u200d about potential\u200d election fraud. The\u200d Bexar County\u2062 Commissioners \u2062Court\u2063 approved a\u2063 $392,000 contract to print and\u200d distribute voter registration forms to unregistered residents, which Paxton deemed &#8220;unlawful\u200b and reckless.&#8221; \u200cHe argued that this\u2062 could lead \u2062to ineligible individuals, such as noncitizens and felons, registering to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Residents expressed their concerns \u200cduring the court meeting, citing the randomness of \u2063distributing \u200bvoter registration forms to unverified individuals and\u2062 raising alarms about numerous cases of duplicate registrations. The county\u2019s election\u2064 administrator reported a significant backlog and issues with pre-filled registration forms that included deceased individuals. Critics of the registration plan claimed it was linked to a \u2064far-left organization and accused officials of misusing taxpayer money without proper safeguards to protect the integrity of the\u2063 election process.<\/p>\n<p>As tensions rise, the situation\u2064 highlights significant issues regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/election-watcher-files-federal-case-accusing-minnesota-of-sharing-private-voter-information\/\" title=\"Election observer sues Minnesota for sharing private voter data.\">voter registration practices<\/a> in Bexar County, with implications for the integrity of future elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Paxton sues Bexar County after warning about election fraud<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1746414\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) &ndash; After Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/texas\/article_71dc02aa-69f0-11ef-868f-7fb287f28608.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;Bexar County officials not to potentially engage in election fraud, they went forward with their voter registration plan utilizing what some called a far-left group and Paxton sued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>At a Bexar County Commissioners Court meeting on Tuesday, commissioners voted 3-1 to approve a plan to spend $392,000 to hire a company to print and distribute voter registration forms to unregistered county residents.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton sent a letter to county officials Monday night warning them not to take the action or his office would sue. &ldquo;It is unlawful and reckless for counties to use taxpayer dollars to indiscriminately send voter registration forms with no consideration of the recipients&rsquo; eligibility and without any statutory authority to do so,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Distributing voter registration forms to unverified recipients &ldquo;could induce ineligible people &ndash; such as felons and noncitizens &ndash; to commit a crime by attempting to register to vote,&rdquo; he warned, also saying that doing so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/500m-obama-presidential-library-will-finally-break-ground-in-chicago-in-2021\/\" title=\"0M Obama Presidential Library Will Finally Break Ground In Chicago In 2021\">violates state law<\/a>. &ldquo;Texas counties have no statutory authority to print and mail state voter registration forms, making the proposal fundamentally illegal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He said their plan &ldquo;is illegal, and if you move forward with this proposal, I will use all available legal means to stop you.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>They moved forward with it, even after numerous residents&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bexarcountytx.new.swagit.com\/videos\/313881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expressed alarm<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and publicly opposed it. They also moved forward with it after Bexar County Election Administrator Jacquelyn Callanen said there were already 900 organizations in the county registering people to vote more than once, with numerous duplicates.<\/p>\n<p>So many residents were being registered to vote that her office had to hire temporary workers to process the increased volume. They still have a 3,000 to 4,000 backlog of registration cards to process, she said. The cards keep coming in.<\/p>\n<p>She also expressed alarm about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alabama-secretary-of-state-warns-of-misleading-voter-registration-mailer-by-leftist-group\/\" title=\"Alabama Secretary of State cautions against deceptive voter registration mailer from leftist organization\">pre-filled voter registration forms<\/a> being sent to residents. One brought her a form with her sister&rsquo;s name on it. &ldquo;Her sister passed away ten years ago. This woman came in and literally threw this at us,&rdquo; Callanen said, adding that constituents are &ldquo;very angry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another resident received a pre-filled voter registration form stating she wasn&rsquo;t registered to vote but she has been voting for 26 years, Callenen said. There are so many of them, she said, she needs help to process all of the information and report it to the Secretary of State&rsquo;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>She also explained that her office processes the information on the card they receive and send it to the SOS, which then verifies the data. This includes checking Social Security numbers, driver&rsquo;s licenses, citizenship and other information. Once the SOS confirms a voter&rsquo;s registration, it sends back a unique voter ID number to her office.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every day we get back information on voter registration,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a deceased person registered to vote, birthday doesn&rsquo;t match, TEL doesn&rsquo;t match, SSN doesn&rsquo;t match, it&rsquo;s a noncitizen. We get back a list of names &hellip; and we cancel them if we have to.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What we&rsquo;re seeing are tons of duplicates coming in,&rdquo; she said, referring to numerous organizations registering the same person to vote more than once.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As of today, we have 1,270,000 registered voters in Bexar County,&rdquo; she said. She also expressed concerns about the county&rsquo;s responsibility to &ldquo;protect the voter.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Resident after resident spoke against the plan. One, Melinda Roberts, told the court, &ldquo;you are hiring a far-left organization to register Democrats to vote,&rdquo; noting that the owner of the company &ldquo;runs partisan organizations and his targeted eligible voters are Democrats. His companies are tech based, and he&rsquo;s on the record stating their political. They are progressive political entities. His companies and connections all lead to partisan politics.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another, Carol Andrews, said they were &ldquo;spending an outrageous amount of taxpayer money and misappropriating funds to a highly partisan group. There are no safeguards built in &hellip; to prevent non-citizens and illegal aliens, which we know have come across the border, from receiving voter applications. This undermines the election process, and it gives citizens a lack of confidence in the fairness of the Democratic system.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another, Rachel Trevino said, &ldquo;we have heard multiple speak about triplicates and voter registrations being sent out about dead voters. &hellip; It&rsquo;s really troubling to see that even knowing that Ken Paxton has addressed this, here we are still trying to vote on something &hellip; that&rsquo;s taking money from the cookie jar of taxpayers to use for what your agenda is.&rdquo; She also pointed out that four on the court are Democrats and only one is a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton&rsquo;s lawsuit names the county judge, four commissioners and the election&rsquo;s administrator as defendants. It asks the court to halt the plan from going into effect and seeks emergency injunctive relief &ldquo;to prevent them from giving a partisan organization, and violation of state and local procurement procedures, hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to mail unsolicited voter registration applications to an untold number of Bexar County residents, regardless of whether those residents requested such an application or are even eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Defendant&rsquo;s actions will create confusion, facilitate fraud, undermine confidence in elections, and are illegal ultra virus acts because they exceed statutory authority.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Despite being warned against adopting this blatantly illegal program,&rdquo; Paxton said, &ldquo;Bexar County has irresponsibly chosen to violate the law,&rdquo; adding that he plans to stop them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1746414\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1746414\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Bexar County after he cautioned county officials against possible election fraud. Despite his warning, the county proceeded with a plan to spend $392,000 on hiring a company to print and distribute voter registration forms to residents who are not registered. During a recent meeting of the Bexar County Commissioners Court, commissioners voted 3-1 in favor of this initiative. Paxton had sent a letter to the officials the night before, stating that it was illegal and irresponsible for counties to use taxpayer funds for sending out voter registration forms without verifying recipients&#8217; eligibility or having legal authority to do so. He expressed concerns that this could lead ineligible individuals\u2014such as felons and noncitizens\u2014to attempt registering unlawfully, which would violate state law.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton emphasized that Texas counties lack the statutory power to print and mail state voter registration forms, labeling their proposal as fundamentally illegal. He warned that if they continued with their plan, he would take all necessary legal actions against them.<\/p>\n<p>Despite numerous residents voicing their opposition during public comments\u2014highlighting issues like duplicate registrations and pre-filled forms sent incorrectly\u2014the commissioners moved ahead with their decision. Bexar County Election Administrator Jacquelyn Callanen reported challenges her office faced due to an influx of registrations from various organizations leading to duplicates; her office is currently dealing with thousands of backlogged applications.<\/p>\n<p>Residents raised alarms about potential misuse of taxpayer money by hiring what they described as a partisan organization focused on registering Democrats while lacking safeguards against non-citizen applicants. The lawsuit names several county officials as defendants and seeks an injunction against implementing this plan, arguing it could create confusion and undermine public confidence in elections while exceeding legal authority.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton criticized Bexar County&#8217;s decision as reckless given his warnings about its legality and pledged his commitment to stopping them from proceeding further<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2337081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24110661450775.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40164,32360,4585,18466,32076],"class_list":["post-2337080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bexar-county","tag-election-fraud","tag-lawsuit","tag-paxton","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24110661450775.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}