AUSTIN (Talk1370.com) -- Travis County officials are pushing back against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in their efforts to target unregistered voters across the county.
Paxton sued Travis County last week over its agreement with an outside contractor, Civic Government Solutions, to find potentially unregistered voters across the county and mail them registration applications.
“Counties have a duty to register eligible Texans to vote,” Travis County Judge Andy Brown said.
Brown, alongside county attorney Delia Garza, announced a federal complaint filed against Paxton, citing violations of the National Voter Registration Act. Garza has also filed a motion to move Paxton's lawsuit against the county to federal court.
“The law, in fact, not only allows this type of activity, it encourages it and it calls it a duty,” Garza said.
Paxton alleges that the agreement with CGS is "paying partisan actors to conduct unlawful identification efforts" to track down unregistered voters. “Programs like this invite fraud and reduce public trust in our elections," said Paxton. "We will stop them and any other county considering such programs."
Oct. 7 is the deadline to register to vote in Texas for the November elections. Anyone who is eligible can find an application at post offices, libraries, and online at VoteTexas.gov; those applications need to be mailed to the county election office where you live.
