Texas Scorecard by Erin Anderson June 18, 2022
But Monica Mendez won’t serve any jail time for her crimes.A coastal Texas woman has admitted she ran a mail-ballot vote harvesting operation in a 2018 local election, but she won’t serve any jail time for her crimes.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday that Monica Mendez pleaded guilty to 26 voter fraud felonies:
• three counts of illegal voting,
• eight counts of election fraud,
• seven counts of assisting a voter to submit a ballot by mail, and
• eight counts of unlawful possession of a mail ballot.
A judge sentenced Mendez to five years’ deferred adjudication probation.
If Mendez complies with the court’s probation terms, the charges will be dismissed as if she had committed no illegal vote-harvesting.
Her crimes are related to eight mail-in ballots in a May 2018 water district board election in Bloomington, a small town of around 2,000 residents in Victoria County.
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