TX Sues Another Blue County Over Voter Registration

The Texas Tribune reports:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Travis County to block an effort to register more voters before the November election. Paxton’s lawsuit follows a decision by the Travis County commissioners to hire Civic Government Solutions to contact non-registered county residents and encourage them to register. Travis County includes Austin.

“We just thought it was nice thing to do,” said Ann Howard, a Travis County Commissioner at The Texas Tribune Festival shortly after news of the lawsuit was made public. Paxton took a similar step earlier this week when he sued Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, the state’s second most populous city.

Bexar and Travis counties are Democratic strongholds in a reliably Republican state. The lawsuits are part of a series of steps both Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott — both Republicans — have taken in recent weeks to “safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote.”

Read the full article. Contrary to Paxton’s claims, Civic Government Solutions is a nonpartisan group.