Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) announced on Tuesday that he is investigating more than 100 cases of suspected noncitizens casting more than 200 ballots in the 2020 and 2022 elections.
Most of the suspected illegal ballots cast were located in Harris County, Texas, the attorney general’s office said. However, the state is investigating other instances in Guadalupe, Cameron, and Eastland counties in coordination with Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson.
“Illegal aliens and foreign nationals must not be allowed to influence Texas elections by casting illegal ballots with impunity. I will not allow it to continue,” Paxton said in a statement.
“Thanks to President Trump’s decisive action to help states safeguard the ballot box, this investigation will help Texas hold noncitizens accountable for unlawfully voting in American elections. If you’re a noncitizen who illegally cast a ballot, you will face the full force of the law,” he warned.
The announcement adds to the Lone Star State’s election integrity efforts.
Just last month, Paxton’s office launched an investigation into 33 suspected noncitizens who allegedly committed voter fraud in the 2024 election. That case was opened after Texas obtained access to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, thanks to President Donald Trump’s executive order that granted all states access to the system.
Nelson, a Republican, referred those 33 cases to the Texas attorney general’s office based on information obtained from the SAVE database.
Both the Trump administration and Texas have ramped up their crackdown on voter fraud committed by illegal immigrants.
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The Department of Justice recently filed a lawsuit against Orange County, California, for failing to provide records showing the removal of noncitizens from its voter registration list and for failing to maintain an accurate voter list. The department argues that an inaccurate list violates the Help America Vote Act. It alleged the same violation in a similar lawsuit filed against North Carolina in May.
On Monday, Paxton’s office announced the indictments and arrests of nine individuals, including public officials, accused of participating in an illegal vote harvesting scheme in Frio County. Among those indicted were Democratic Texas state Rep. Elizabeth Campos’s chief of staff, a county commissioner, a former mayor, and a former city council member. An additional six people were previously indicted in the same scheme.