You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?
Paxton’s most recent abuses of power are in character (a word not often associated with the man). His election integrity unit the past year spent more than 20,000 hours and $2.2 million of our money looking for election fraud. Echoing Trump, Paxton insists that it’s rampant, in Texas and elsewhere.
As the Chronicle reported last week, the unit closed just three cases this year, down from 17 last year, and opened seven new ones. Paxton’s office discovered no evidence of voter fraud in 2020, beyond isolated and picayune incidents affecting a handful of votes. With more than 11 million Texans casting ballots, such paltry numbers would be hard-pressed to swing an election for a local Elks Lodge president, much less a president of the United States.
You caught that recent press conference, right? The one Paxton called to reassure his fellow Texans that the 2020 elections were clean as a whistle, that Texans didn’t cheat, that Joe Biden was duly elected president?
You didn’t, of course, because the AG didn’t call such a press conference. Running for a third term, he doesn’t want his Trump-addled base to know that he knows that voter fraud is surpassingly rare.