From Public Citizen <[email protected]>
Subject racist voter disenfranchisement
Date September 4, 2024 7:01 PM
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Did you hear how Ken Paxton, the MAGA Attorney General of Texas, celebrated
Labor Day?

* On Monday, Paxton threatened lawsuits against two Texas counties — Bexar
County and Harris County — over plans to mail voter registration forms to
eligible but unregistered voters.

* The two counties Paxton singled out both have large Latino populations.
Harris County alone is home to one out of every five Latinos in the entire
Lone Star State.

* And, again, the plans concern eligible but unregistered voters.

* Yet Paxton went on Glenn Beck’s talk show last month and repeated a
conspiracy theory about Democrats importing millions of Mexicans to vote in
the U.S.: “This was the plan. Tell the cartels, ‘Get people here as fast as
possible, as many as possible, we’re not going to make them hide anymore,
we’ll get them placed in the right states.’”

* (Yes, Glenn Beck is still around, and still a reactionary jerk.)

* This is just the latest of numerous flagrantly discriminatory and
anti-democratic actions undertaken by Paxton in his decade as the top law
enforcement official in Texas.

The top law enforcement official in the second largest state in America is going
out of his way to make it harder for people of color in Texas who are eligible
to vote to do so.

Public Citizen is calling for the federal government to investigate whether Ken
Paxton has broken any laws in his flagrantly discriminatory efforts to harass,
intimidate, and disenfranchise voters and voting officials in Texas.

To the U.S. Department of Justice:
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is going out of his way to make it harder for
people of color who are eligible to vote to do so. The DOJ should investigate
whether Paxton has broken any laws in his flagrantly discriminatory efforts to
harass, intimidate, and disenfranchise voters and voting officials in Texas.
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