Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced over the weekend that his office still has more than 500 election fraud cases that need to be heard in court.
The attorney general made the announcement after a woman was arrested by the state Election Fraud Unit late last week for multiple counts of election fraud, according to a news release from his office.
“We will prosecute voter fraud every time we find it,” Paxton, a Republican, wrote on Twitter over the weekend in reference to the case. “Currently our office has over 500 cases waiting to be heard in court.”
While Paxton didn’t provide any more information about the cases, he asserted that “voter fraud is real” and that “Texans deserve to know their vote is legally and securely counted.”
According to the news release from his office, which provided scant details about the case, Monica Mendez was arrested and booked into the Victoria County Jail on June 23. It came after a grand jury returned an indictment on seven counts of illegal voting, eight counts of unlawfully assisting a voter, eight counts of unlawful possession of ballots, and eight counts of election fraud.
Her case, however, was not related to the Nov. 3 election, the release said. Instead, the Texas secretary of state referred Mendez to the attorney general’s office after she faced allegations of illegal voting stemming from a 2018 local election.
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