In 2020, Texas AG Ken Paxton mounted a successful legal challenge to block election...
of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations of bribery and abuse of office, social media users are falsely claiming Paxton also recently admitted to election interference.said Paxton was"caught on tape saying he discarded 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas." The video’s narrator talks about the prosecutor appointed in Paxton’s case, but does not mention ballots.
appearance on Steven Bannon’s"War Room" podcast. Paxton said Trump would have lost in Texas in 2020 if the attorney general’s office had not mounted a successful legal challenge to block counties from sending mail-in ballot applications to registered voters."Trump won by 620,000 votes in Texas. Harris County mail-in ballots that they wanted to send out were 2.5 million. Those were all illegal and we were able to stop every one of them," Paxton said on the podcast.
But both Paxton’s account and the social media posts misconstrued what happened with mail-in voting in Texas during the 2020 election.that Harris County, the state’s most populous county, could not send out mail-in ballot applications to its 2.4 million registered voters.PolitiFact is a fact-checking project to help you sort out fact from fiction in politics. Truth-O-Meter ratings are determined by a panel of three editors.
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