By Kanishka Singh
(Reuters) – Texas Lawyer Normal Ken Paxton on Wednesday sued one of many state’s most populous counties, asking a courtroom to dam its plan of mailing unregistered county residents voter registration varieties, a courtroom submitting confirmed.
Bexar County lacks the authority to ship out unsolicited registration purposes, which county officers are sending to eligible, however unregistered, voters, the lawsuit stated.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Within the 2020 elections, Democratic President Joe Biden carried the county whereas Republican former President Donald Trump carried all the state. Biden gained the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Biden gained Bexar County, the state’s fourth most populous county and residential to San Antonio, by 18 factors, in accordance with the Texas Tribune. General, Trump carried the state with 52.1% of the vote in comparison with Biden’s 46.5%, the newspaper added.
Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the present Democratic candidate, are locked in a decent race for the presidency, with lower than two months to go earlier than the Nov. 5 election.
KEY QUOTES
The county’s actions exceed its “statutory authority,” the lawsuit submitting says.
Paxton in his statements in current days had tried to color the voter registration plan as a means of registering non-citizens to vote. Supporters of the plan deny that declare and say the step is just geared toward growing voter participation.
“We’ve got people who just need to get registered. We don’t tell them who to vote for,” County Commissioner Justin Rodriguez, who introduced this concept to native leaders, was quoted as saying within the Washington Publish.
