Texas AG Ken Paxton's office spent 22,000 hours looking for voter fraud...

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Texas AG Ken Paxton's office spent 22,000 hours looking for voter fraud and uncovered just 16 cases of false addresses on registration forms, according to The Houston Chronicle.

Nearly 17M voters are registered in Texas.

Raymond J. Mollica
@RaymondMollica
So, one in a million.....
1:44 PM · Mar 15, 2021

From this story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-gop-launches-avalanche-bills-curtail-voting-n1260747

[marble falls]

1. The voter fraud that counts is the fraud before the election that disenfrachises voters , that ...

... hpeens after the votes are in the "box".

[Caliman73]

5. And that is 95% to 99% Republican.

The Republicans convince people that "voter fraud" is a problem while they engage in Elections fraud ALL the damn time.

[marble falls]

8. It helps in their program to convince people there vote doesn't count. It's not that your vote ...

doesn't count, it's that they don't want it to count. If your vote didn't count they wouldn't work so hard to peel it from you.

[Caliman73]

14. Absolutely.

Republicans run on a platform that "Government doesn't work" so naturally when they are in charge, they tear down programs designed to help people, strip the government of revenue (taxes) except for the military, and then blame everything failing on government. Their job is merely to destroy, then find the appropriate scapegoat. Convince people that they have no voice, then you can count on only 50% to 60% (max) of the eligible population voting. Then all you need to do is arouse about 27% of the population, and you can win national and state elections and maintain power with a minority of actual support.

[MissMillie]

15. that's not "voter fraud," it's election fraud

voter fraud implies the voters are doing something wrong

[marble falls]

17. That's our point. I'll start ""ing "voter" fraud.

[soothsayer]

2. Glad he verified that elections are secure

[bluedigger]

3. Unlikely.

That's 10 people working full time for a year. I do find it highly likely that Texas taxpayers were billed for those hours, however.

[Comfortably_Numb]

4. To find a massive fraud Ken the moron needs to look in a mirror.

[EleanorR]

7. Indeed. He was indicted 5 years ago

Why has this not gone to trial?

[Comfortably_Numb]

11. It's Texas.... nuff said?

Corruption from top to bottom and incompetence as the cherry on top.

[Paladin]

6. Go away forever, Paxton. (nt)

[gratuitous]

9. Artist's conception of Paxton's efforts

"Found this spoon, sir!"

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Sounds like to me that this entire office (the AG of TX) is NOT even needed in TX, since they

seemingly waste their time on non issues, and instead, make everything partisan as possible. Get rid of the office. 22,000 hours is 10 people, full time, in a year. Talk about government waste. Maybe that's the issue that needs to be addressed. No wonder that this AG guy been flailing / under indictment or such.

[TexasTowelie]

12. It actually is an office that is needed.

The Texas AG's office is the tool against deadbeat dads that fail to pay their child support.

[SWBTATTReg]

13. I know, I totally agree w/ you that the office and the authorities it represents is needed.

I was just mouthing off in general, especially at paxton who I feel is abusing his office for partisan means, and it happens everywhere. The AG of Missouri (my state) has joined w/ others (I assume other republican AGs) in fighting Biden and a decree or two of his. I imagine that they (the repug AGs) probably will go against everything Biden does.

Nothing like being an independent agency, eh? SMH. Take care of yourself!

[RANDYWILDMAN]

16. He should now spend 22k hours enrolling disenfranchised minority voters

to make up for all that wasted time.



*Starting to scare myself by spelling disenfranchised without spell check