Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday filed a lawsuit against Travis County, which includes the capital of Austin and is the fifth most populous county in the state, over its voter registration policies.
In a lawsuit filed in the District Court of Travis County, the attorney’s office alleged that Travis County hired a third-party company to aid in voter registration, which Paxton said runs afoul of the law. The firm in question, Civic Government Solutions, is a “partisan organization” because its CEO had made public comments about his interest in “progressive” politics, the suit says.
“Travis County has blatantly violated Texas law by paying partisan actors to conduct unlawful identification efforts to track down people who are not registered to vote,” Paxton, a Republican, said in a statement alongside the lawsuit. “Programs like this invite fraud and reduce public trust in our elections. We will stop them and any other county considering such programs.”…