Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Friday to stop a county from using taxpayer dollars to pay a voter registration firm aligned with progressives to identify unregistered voters.
Travis County is allegedly illegally paying taxpayer dollars to Civic Government Solutions (CGS), a voter registration firm, to create a list of unregistered voters for the county, according to the lawsuit.
Travis County, home of Austin, Texas, is solidly blue, and CGS CEO Jeremy Smith has made statements in the past that encourage people to vote for progressive candidates.
Paxton warned that the program would potentially allow illegal immigrants to vote and “invites election fraud.” “It is unlawful and reckless for counties to use taxpayer dollars to indiscriminately send voter registration forms with no consideration of the recipients’ eligibility and without any statutory authority to do so,” Paxton warned Bexar County in a Monday press release.
We will stop them and any other county considering such programs.” The Travis County Commissioners Court approved the use of the firm on Aug. 27, with the contract extending to 2025, according to county documents.
Davis said their process was no different from a traditional voter registration drive, and their mailing process simply streamlines the process.
“Travis County has blatantly violated Texas law by paying partisan actors to conduct unlawful identification efforts to track down people who are not registered to vote,” Paxton said in a press release.
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