racist voter disenfranchisement

 

Did you hear how Ken Paxton, the MAGA Attorney General of Texas, celebrated Labor Day?

• On Monday, Paxton threatened lawsuits against two Texas counties — Bexar County and Harris County — over plans to mail voter registration forms to eligible but unregistered voters.

• The two counties Paxton singled out both have large Latino populations. Harris County alone is home to one out of every five Latinos in the entire Lone Star State.

• And, again, the plans concern eligible but unregistered voters.

• Yet Paxton went on Glenn Beck’s talk show last month and repeated a conspiracy theory about Democrats importing millions of Mexicans to vote in the U.S.: “This was the plan. Tell the cartels, ‘Get people here as fast as possible, as many as possible, we’re not going to make them hide anymore, we’ll get them placed in the right states.’”

• (Yes, Glenn Beck is still around, and still a reactionary jerk.)

• This is just the latest of numerous flagrantly discriminatory and anti-democratic actions undertaken by Paxton in his decade as the top law enforcement official in Texas.

The top law enforcement official in the second largest state in America is going out of his way to make it harder for people of color in Texas who are eligible to vote to do so.

Public Citizen is calling for the federal government to investigate whether Ken Paxton has broken any laws in his flagrantly discriminatory efforts to harass, intimidate, and disenfranchise voters and voting officials in Texas.

To the U.S. Department of Justice:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is going out of his way to make it harder for people of color who are eligible to vote to do so. The DOJ should investigate whether Paxton has broken any laws in his flagrantly discriminatory efforts to harass, intimidate, and disenfranchise voters and voting officials in Texas.

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