The request by the Texas Senate Democratic Caucus in a letter to the Department of Justice follows a similar request by a Latino civil rights organization.
Voting access and election integrity are central to a partisan clash in Texas. One result is a request from a group of Democrats who have asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate steps by the state Attorney General.A group of Democratic state lawmakers on Friday asked the U.S.
The efforts, however, have just as often provoked condemnation and worries from civil rights groups and Democrats that the state is violating Texans’ rights and trying to scare people away from the polls. “These actions echo a troubling history of voter suppression and intimidation that has long targeted both Black and Latino communities, particularly in states like Texas, where demographic changes have increasingly shifted the political landscape,” the letter states. “The right to vote is fundamental to our democracy, and LULAC stands firm in its commitment to defending that right for all Americans, regardless of race or ethnicity.
The claim was disputed by the Department of Public Safety, a local Republican county chair and the local elections administrator — all who said no evidence supported it — but Paxton opened an investigation anyway, the lawmakers wrote.
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