Texas Raided Latino Voting Rights Groups

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/27/ken-paxton-texas-home-raids-lulac-members

Texas ordered raids on homes of Latino voting rights organizers over claims of voter fraud. Surprise, surprise....they found nothing:

Texas Republicans accused of intimidation after raiding homes over voter fraud claims

Texas attorney general, said in a statement last week his office had executed multiple search warrants in Bexar county, which includes San Antonio, as well as neighboring Frio and Atascosa counties as part of an ongoing, two-year investigation. The office did not provide details of the investigation or respond to a request for comment.

No one has been arrested and the exact nature of the investigation remains unclear. But the searches themselves were designed to intimidate, Lulac officials said.

Texas Attorney General Paxton’s office has operated an entire unit dedicated to prosecuting cases of voter fraud for years. The unit has a budget of millions of dollars, but closes very few cases. In the last fiscal year, for example, it had a budget of $2.3m and handled just four cases, according to the Houston Chronicle.

This story is from August. And while it's common for significant news stories to slip through the cracks, how this one didn't get on the national radar is dumfounding.

This is around the time Georgia changed elections rules to allow them to context voting results they don't like, for arbitrary reasons:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/11/politics/georgia-new-election-rules-trump-harris/index.html

The GOP is the single biggest threat to Democracy in the U.S.

If anyone's interest, a video from Some More News, which is where I learned about the Texas raids.

YouTube

It's titled: The GOP vs. Your Right to Vote

@vivify
They knew well in advance there was no fraud, it was just another Mafia style thug routine to intimidate Latin voters.
And anyone else who is not a scum sucking magite.

OMG they were being investigated for voter fraud, well we certainly can't have that.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
OMG they were being investigated for voter fraud, well we certainly can't have that.

@vivify said
Also (and this is key) the Republican AG *only* raided homes of Latino Democrats. These particular Latinos were voting rights organizers aimed at helping Latinos vote.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
"Voting rights organizers aimed at helping illegals vote"
There, fixed it for you.

@vivify said
Yet after all those raids, no arrests were made.

There's go your propaganda.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
Can't be too cautious, it doesn't hurt to be sure.
The sneaky little devils would do it if they thought they could get away with it.

@vivify said
You're talking about Latinos. Without knowing anything about them, you called them "illegals" and "sneaky".

And you'll complain when you're called out for being racist, right?

@Cliff-Mashburn said
OMG they were being investigated for voter fraud, well we certainly can't have that.