SEATTLE - In his latest move to counter what he believes is voter registration fraud, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened Harris and Bexar counties, two of the state's most populous and Latino-heavy counties, with lawsuits over their plans to register voters via mail.
In letters written on Sept. 2, Paxton claimed the counties' mailing of voter registration forms would either "confuse" noncitizens about their eligibility to vote or "induce" them to fraudulently register to cast a vote. The two counties targeted by Paxton are either plurality or majority Latino, with nearly a fifth of all Texas Latinos living in Harris County alone.
