Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed emergency motions against Travis and Bexar counties to supplement his lawsuits against their “unlawful” voter registration programs.
These motions resulted from an unsolicited voter registration form sent on September 18 to Louise O’Connor, maternal grandmother of former state representative and current Deputy Commissioner of Agriculture Terry Keel. His parents received the mailer for Ms. O’Connor, who is buried in Austin as she died in 1980.
“These counties have already sought to avoid judicial review of their blatantly illegal election programs. Now, one of these programs sent a voter registration application to a resident who has been deceased for more than forty years,” said Paxton.
Travis County officials recently countersued Paxton and Secretary of State Jane Nelson, claiming Paxton’s initial lawsuit against Travis violated the National Voter Registration Act.
Earlier, Bexar County Judge Antonia Arteaga rendered Paxton’s motion to stop third-party vendor Civic Government Solutions (CGS) from sending the voter registrations moot. CGS had already completed its purchase award “to print and mail State Voter Registration Forms, with postage-paid return envelopes, to unregistered voters in locations based on targeting agreed to by the County.”
Paxton later appealed for a temporary restraining order and injunction.
Texas Scorecard has since obtained several voter registration forms sent to long-registered Bexar County citizens from “Election Mail Service” (EMS).
