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Government Corruption

Texas AG Sues Second County Using Taxpayer Funds To Pay Voter Registration Firm Run By Progressive Activist

2024-09-09

[AmericanActionNews] Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Friday to stop a county from using taxpayer dollars to pay a voter registration firm aligned with progressives to identify unregistered voters.

Travis County is allegedly illegally paying taxpayer dollars to Civic Government Solutions (CGS), a voter registration firm, to create a list of unregistered voters for the county, according to the lawsuit. Travis County, home of Austin, Texas, is solidly blue, and CGS CEO Jeremy Smith has made statements in the past that encourage people to vote for progressive candidates.

''Travis County has blatantly violated Texas law by paying partisan actors to conduct unlawful identification efforts to track down people who are not registered to vote,'' Paxton said in a blurb. ''Programs like this invite fraud and reduce public trust in our elections. We will stop them and any other county considering such programs.''

The Travis County Commissioners Court approved the use of the firm on Aug. 27, with the contract extending to 2025, according to county documents. CGS has sent over 10 million mailers since 2018 and has registered 2 million voters, according to the lawsuit.

Smith is also the CEO of Civitech, which describes itself as a ''progressive data startup,'' according to Axios. Civitech is listed as a registered contractor of CGS, with their goal being to ''drive support for progressive causes and candidates'' and to register ''likely Democratic voters across the nation could be the key to securing Democratic victory in 2024,'' according to the lawsuit.

''Not investing now means not only will we lose some 2022 elections, but we will lose some 2024 elections and some 2026 elections because we haven't converted people now to become habitual voters. It has downstream impacts,'' Smith said on The Great Battlefield Podcast in 2022. ''It's pernicious in multiple ways, because the system we rely on does not show unregistered people, so the majority of our political efforts are accidentally leaving them out.''

Paxton filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Bexar County for allegedly sending out massive amounts of registration applications regardless of whether they were requested via a third-party vendor. Paxton warned that the program would potentially allow illegal im~~migrants~~ colonists to vote and ''invites election fraud.''

Posted by:Fred

#2 This is a good case for prosecution. The Republicans in Travis County ought to also be looking at how long this has been going on and whether the GOP members of their County Board of Elections were aware of this. Were they complicit?
Voter registration drives can be a good thing, but they ought not to be government funded. In the worst case scenario, folks are registered that are precluded from voting by law. Almost as bad is registering people that don’t vote creating an opportunity for fraud.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-09-09 12:48

#1 This is voter fraud and should be a state felony with penalties of at least 10 years and 100k fines. For each person signed up illegally. MAKE IT HURT.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2024-09-09 00:35

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