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Latino Civil Rights Group Demands Inquiry Into Texas Voter Fraud Raids [1]
['Edgar Sandoval']
Date: 2024-08-25
A Latino civil rights group is asking the Department of Justice to open an investigation into a series of raids conducted on Latino voting activists and political operatives as part of a sprawling voter fraud inquiry by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton.
The League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the nation’s oldest Latino civil rights organizations, said that many of those targeted were Democratic leaders and election volunteers, and that some were older residents in their 70s and 80s. Gabriel Rosales, the director of the group’s Texas chapter, said that officers conducting the raids took cellphones, computers and documents. He called the raids “alarming” and said they were an effort to suppress Latino voters.
At a news conference on Monday outside the attorney general’s offices in San Antonio, members of the group, known as LULAC, said they were filing a civil-rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice. Roland Gutierrez, a state senator, said he was requesting a State Senate investigation into the raids.
“You don’t go after our grandmothers,” Domingo Garcia, a LULAC leader, told reporters.
The raids were carried out in counties near San Antonio and in South Texas. In a statement last week, Mr. Paxton, a Republican, said they were part of an “ongoing election integrity investigation” that began two years ago to look into allegations of election fraud and vote harvesting. His office has said that it would not comment on the investigation because it is still underway.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/us/texas-latinos-democrats-raids-paxton.html
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