Ken Paxton sues Travis County to block voter registration efforts

[RandySF]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Travis County to block an effort to register more voters before the November election.

The Texas Tribune and Votebeat obtained a draft copy of the lawsuit.

Paxton's lawsuit follows a decision by the Travis County commissioners to hire Civic Government Solutions to contact non-registered county residents and encourage them to register. Travis County includes Austin.

"We just thought it was nice thing to do," said Ann Howard, a Travis County Commissioner at The Texas Tribune Festival shortly after news of the lawsuit was made public.




https://www.texastribune.org/2024/09/06/texas-ken-paxton-travis-county-voter-registration/

[ColinC]

1. They are terrified that this could be the year the GOP gets whooped in Texas

I would be too if I were them

[flying_wahini]

2. Ken Paxton is kicking them off the voters rolls as fast as he can.

Even if he gets sued that will be long after the elections. So he doesn’t give one shit.

[LeftInTX]

3. Travis County has a better chance of prevailing than Bexar County.

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I read both of Paxton's filings.

Travis seemed to do everything right, such as open bidding, insourcing the data.
Bexar County outsourced the entire project.


They can grant Paxton's Bexar injunction based on:
Lack of open bidding
Supposed compensation per voter (which is illegal...aka buying votes). (I'm sure it was a slip of the tongue, because there are cost/benefits to everything, but it unfortunately meets Paxton's bar. I'm sure Paxton had someone in Tuesday's Commissioners Court meeting and he salivated when he heard it)


The request for the Travis injunction is based on Paxton's BS. Unfortunately, the Texas Supreme Court is very biased.
OTOH, they are two different suits. Bexar appears to have done things that are not consistent with Texas Statutes.

Travis has done everything that appears to be legal. There is no statute indicating whether or not counties can send out applications en masse. Paxton is arguing that they can't send them out because there isn't a law that states they can. Other than that, the lawsuit is full of his usual, "non-citizens will register" BS.

[Lonestarblue]

4. Maybe Republican counties are not registering new voters, but lawsuits have been filed only on Democratic counties.

Texas really does not want Democrats to vote.

[LeftInTX]

5. Curious if red counties are trying this?

I know they're much smaller. I can't find out any info.