Dan Crenshaw Sends Voters Unsolicited Mail-In Ballot Applications After Backing GOP Law That Bans Practice

The Texas Tribune reports:

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, is taking heat this week for sending out campaign mailers containing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications to voters who are 65 and older. Last year, Texas Republicans in the Legislature passed an elections law that banned local election officials from that very same practice under the banner of protecting election integrity.

However, the law made an exception for candidates and political parties to continue the practice, which has long been a popular get-out-the-vote tactic typically employed by both parties, but especially by Republicans.

Democrats this week said Crenshaw’s mailer highlights hypocrisy in the new voting law and shows that Republicans who railed against vote-by-mail expansion efforts last year were only concerned about the ways it could benefit Democrats.

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U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw is taking heat this week after sending unsolicited mail-in ballot applications to voters.

The congressman has been a strong supporter of a recent Texas law that bans the practice for local election officials.https://t.co/vVVnFIpIHW

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) January 26, 2022