Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is suing the Democratic stronghold of Bexar County over a plan to send unsolicited voter registration forms to eligible, but unregistered, voters.
Bexar County, the state’s fourth most populous county and home to San Antonio, voted for Joe Biden in 2020 by a margin of 18 points — more than three times the spread by which the entire state voted for Trump.
In a warning on Monday night, Paxton sought to cast the county’s voter registration plan as a means of registering noncitizens to vote — something that the right wing of the state and national GOP insist is part of a plan by Democrats to steal the election.
County leadership defied Paxton on Tuesday when the board of commissioners voted 3 to 1 to mail out the registration forms, The Texas Tribune reported.
In a suit filed on Wednesday morning in Bexar County District Court, Paxton is demanding that state judges block the registration drive.
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