| Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an illegal voting
tipline ahead of the presidential election in November, hoping that
anyone with direct knowledge of unlawful voting taking place can come
forward and voice these concerns with the state.
Paxton’s website issued a press release related to the ongoing efforts to secure election integrity.
The release highlights the “Significant growth of the noncitizen
population in Texas and a pattern of partisan efforts to illegally
weaponize voter registration and the voting process to manipulate
electoral outcomes have created urgent risks to local, state, and
federal elections.”
The election advisory also provides civilians and government entities
with warning signs as to what is considered illegal conduct within the
context of voting, such as vote harvesting and lying about U.S.
citizenship.
“There is nothing more important than the integrity of our elections.
This means protecting every legal vote from unlawful attempts to alter
the outcome of our elections. Any attempt to illegally cancel out legal
ballots with fraud, vote harvesting, or other methods will be met with
the full force of the law,” Paxton stated. “I invite all Texans to
report suspected violations at our new tipline, illegalvoting@oag.texas.gov.
Your political liberties and your representation in our government
depend on secure elections. I will fight every step of the way to
protect your vote and your voice.”
The announcement of the tipline follows eight days after Paxton’s
office executed search warrants of volunteers with LULAC, a Latino
advocacy group.
Paxton’s office stated that the warrants were related to “allegations
of election fraud and vote harvesting that occurred during the 2022
elections.”
Meanwhile, Democrat critics of the initiative claim that the new
tipline is actually meant to “intimidate Latino voters” and that
election fraud is “not a serious issue” in the state.
“We’ve seen this show from this crooked Ken Paxton over and over
again, and it is only voter suppression and voter intimidation,” stated
Texas Senator Roland Gutierrez (D-Texas).
However, not once in any capacity does Paxton’s advisory suggest who
voters should choose; on the contrary, the document states that voters
have the right to “Vote independently. No one should ever tell you who
to vote for while you are voting.”
President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s border crisis has resulted in
an influx of illegal immigrants without documentation coming into the
state.
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