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The Houston Chronicle reports:
The Republican Party of Texas is suing a lawyer who helped write the state’s recent election reform law and who they claim duped several former Republican candidates into believing they could prove voter suppression in Harris County. The suit, filed Friday in Mitchell County, stems from a spate of election contests filed by Harris County Republican candidates who lost the 2022 general election. Most of those were dismissed without going to trial.
The new complaint alleges attorney Elizabeth Alvarez lied to 17 candidates that her firm had prepared a “data model” that would have shown that “more than 40,000 voters were suppressed.” That model “never existed and Defendants were not able to put forth even a scintilla of evidence,” the suit states. The plaintiffs are seeking to recoup at least the $350,000 that the party paid to the firm and up to $1 million in damages.
Read the full article. Photo: Texas GOP chair Matt Rinaldi.
NEW: In new suit, Texas GOP says lawyer falsely claimed she could prove voter suppression in Harris County election https://t.co/ShE0UjdYZP #txlege
— Taylor Goldenstein (@taygoldenstein) December 7, 2023
This lawsuit is an admission of what we already knew: these suits were frivolous from the start. The only new revelation here is that a bunch of aspiring judges didn’t understand that their own legal theories were science fiction.
— Christian D. Menefee (@CDMenefee) December 7, 2023