WaPo: “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Wednesday against one of the state’s largest urban counties to stop lawmakers there from using taxpayer dollars to mail thousands of voter registration applications to its unregistered residents.
Despite a warning from the attorney general, commissioners from Bexar County — home to San Antonio — approved a plan this week to pay Civic Government Solutions to send more than 200,000 forms to residents one month before the Texas registration deadline. It is the first time county leaders have contracted an outside company to send unsolicited registration forms to residents in an effort to boost voter participation.
Paxton is seeking an emergency order to block the plan, which he derided as an effort by Democrats to boost their own numbers. He said it will “create confusion, facilitate fraud, undermine confidence in elections” and is illegal. He also argued it will worsen existing voter registration backlogs and that the firm hired has known ties to Democratic causes and candidates, according to the lawsuit.”