Texas sues Travis County after taxpayer funds used to identify potentially unregistered voters

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 01: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court on November 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a challenge to the controversial Texas abortion law which bans abortions after 6 weeks. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — Texas is taking legal action against the Travis County Commissioners Court to stop an effort to identify potentially unregistered voters.

Attorney General Ken Paxton says the effort was unlawful because taxpayer money was used to hire a partisan third-party organization called Civic Government Solutions without statutory authority.

“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,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Programs like this invite fraud and reduce public trust in our elections. We will stop them and any other county considering such programs.”

Paxton recently sued Bexar County over a program that would send mass mailout to unregistered individuals, potentially to those ineligible to vote, and sent a letter to Harris County warning against passing a voter registration mailout resolution.

You can read the filing against Travis County by clicking here.

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