Ken Paxton and Texas Republicans Look To Suppress Latino Vote August 2024 #kenpaxton #vote

heard from one woman who last week had a knock on her door at 6:00 in the morning she says she opened the door in her night gown and there were two handfuls of investigators on her front porch I went to the door and uh nine officers from uh the Attorney General's office walked in and they had a search warrant Lydia Martinez is one of a half dozen or so in South Texas served with search warrants last week by investigators in the Attorney General's office looking for proof of election wrongdoing in the 2022 elections in beay atosa and Frio counties it's why lulac says it will formally ask the justice department to investigate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office we didn't break any laws all we did was go out there to increase the political participation of the Latino Community that's the only thing that we do Audrey Lewis the Republican district attorney for two of the counties prompted the investigation with the referral to the Attorney General's office in a statement the AG's office says it was a 2-year investigation looking into voter fraud and vote harvesting allegations and that it executed multiple search warrants the statement saying no further comment will be given on the still active case lulac says the home searched with items seized in some cases involved a candidate running for office in South Texas and others who worked or volunteered for the campaign the group critical of Paxton using his office to come in and terrorize our community terrorize grandmothers terrorize you know little old ladies that are only doing nothing nothing but trying to help our