“Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott recently wrote an opinion piece for the Fort Worth Star Telegram titled, ‘Voter Fraud Must Stop.’ Abbott discussed his commitment to use a newly created office – the Special Investigations Unit – and a $1.5 million grant from the Governor’s office to train local officials so they can stop what Abbott describes as ‘an epidemic of voter fraud [that] is infesting the electoral process.’
Ed Ishmael, a Dallas lawyer and President and Cofounder of the Texas Values in Action Coalition, disagrees with Abbott’s assertion that voter fraud is an ‘epidemic’ in Texas. In a viewpoint posted on Dallas Blog, Ishmael points out that:”
|
“If you add up all of the suspects Abbott references in his article as being somehow involved in election fraud in Texas, it comes to 16…If you wade through Abbott’s carefully parsed words, you see that only three of these suspects have actually been found guilty (all three of them pleaded guilty) and the rest have either been merely accused or only recently indicted so they haven’t even yet gone to trial…Three! How is that an epidemic?”
|
Tags: texas, Voter Fraud