Texas

Counting votes is the County Clerks’ job. Certifying the votes is the Secretary of State.

The little weasels’s job is to investigate and prosecute allegations of election misconduct and fraud.

A ruling limited AG Paxton’s power to go after voter fraud. So why is he still spending millions?
By Taylor Goldenstein,
Austin Bureau
Aug 13, 2024

Since a 2021 court ruling limited Attorney General Ken Paxton’s ability to prosecute voter fraud, his office’s work combating those crimes has slowed to a crawl.

Yet even as Paxton’s election fraud unit has seen its caseload dwindle and most of its lawyers disperse, it has continued to spend millions, records obtained by Hearst Newspapers show. Last fiscal year, the unit prosecuted just four cases and spent most of its $2.3 million budget. This fiscal year, which ends Aug. 31, it has closed just two cases and is on track to spend $1 million.

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John Cornyn’s gonna pound him into the ground over this. Cornyn served on the Texas Supreme Court from 1991 to 1997 and as the attorney general of Texas from 1999 to 2002.