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Investigators broke open a 2022 vote-buying case in Kentucky's Monroe County through a tip filed with the attorney general's election fraud hotline, a key tool the state uses to keep elections ...
A 2022 investigation by KING-TV found that the likelihood of being charged for voter fraud in Washington state varied depending on the county; King County, with a voting population of 1.3 million, had charged 9 cases of voter fraud since 2007, while the much smaller Lewis County had charged 8 (at least 3 of which were dismissed). [452]
[60] [87] Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, and Paul Smith, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, questioned whether Texas has standing to bring the lawsuit and said the Supreme Court is unlikely to take up the case. [60] University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck remarked, "It looks ...
Texas argued it had standing to sue to prevent its votes from becoming "diluted". [29] Texas instead alleged that "fraud becomes undetectable" because "unlawful actions of election officials effectively destroy the evidence". Whether "voters committed fraud" was not the "constitutional issue" in this case, according to Texas.
The searches came amid a broader push by Paxton to prosecute election fraud — a campaign that in 2023 spent $2.3 million to prosecute just four cases, according to the Houston Chronicle.
And in 2021, in tandem with their widespread claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, Texas Republicans passed Senate Bill 1, a law that included provisions making it far harder for elderly ...
She was convicted three months later for voter fraud and sentenced to five years imprisonment, a punishment that gained national attention. [2] On March 31, 2021 the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed to consider Mason's appeal, [ 3 ] and on March 28, 2024 her conviction was overturned.
The case against Taulbee, McDonald and Noble was part of a larger investigation of fraud involving crop insurance in recent years that prosecutors called “a severe and pervasive scourge” in ...