Less than two months away from the 2024 election, some Republicans are using the courts to push back against efforts to register eligible voters — again, under the guise of safeguarding elections.
In Texas, a legal battle is brewing over officials in Bexar County — one of Texas’s largest counties — approving a plan to hire a third-party vendor to mail out over 200,000 voter registration forms to residents who are eligible to vote but aren’t registered.
Paxton sued the Bexar Commissioners Court after they moved forward with the voter registration plan. His office framed it as an eligibility issue, but a spokesperson for the county said the letters are for unregistered — but eligible — voters.
The attorney general is under fire for his state election fraud probe, which led to authorities raiding the homes of several Latino campaign volunteers last month. Some Texas Democrats have denounced the raid as a voter suppression tactic. Read more about Paxton’s lawsuit.
Similarly, the Republican National Committee (RNC) sent letters to the six secretaries of states — Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin —- urging them to monitor a civic health organization that’s helping to register voters in health care settings.
The letters accuse the nonpartisan Vot-ER of “weaponizing the healthcare system” for “partisan political purposes,” and urge each secretary of state “to monitor Vot-ER’s activity in your state to ensure its compliance with state and federal law and to safeguard the integrity of your elections.” Read more on the letters.
