Texas Scorecard by Ian Camacho | September 6, 2024
Paxton’s lawsuit against the Travis County Commissioners Court follows the suit against Bexar County earlier this week.Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced a lawsuit against Travis County’s Commissioners Court and Voter Registrar Bruce Elfant for hiring a partisan third-party organization to identify potentially unregistered voters without statutory authority.
Paxton recently sued Bexar County after it moved forward with funding an identical program that would send unsolicited, mass voter registration mailouts to unregistered individuals. He notified Harris County that he would sue if it approved a similar program. Harris then tabled its negotiations.
The Travis lawsuit seeks an injunction to prevent the court “from giving a partisan organization thousands of taxpayer dollars to identify the names and addresses of potentially unregistered voters without statutory authority.”
In June, the court added a “Late Item” to its agenda to “transfer $48,800 from the Allocated Reserve to the Tax Office to assist with a pilot for voter outreach services, and earmark $500,000 from the Allocated Reserve for the Tax Office so that funding may be available should Travis County decide to move forward with procuring additional services to assist with voter outreach.”
Travis County then hired a third-party vendor, Civic Government Solutions, LLC (CGS).
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/local/ag-paxton-sues-travis-county-for-funding-democrat-voter-registration-front-group/
