Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Jolt Initiative after an investigation from his office found that the nonprofit organization handed out instructions on how to register to vote to noncitizens outside of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.
“The left constantly tries to cheat and rig elections because they know they can’t win honestly. Any organization attempting to register illegals, who are all criminals, must be completely crushed and shut down immediately,” Paxton wrote in a press briefing Monday morning.
“JOLT is a radical, partisan operation that has, and continues to, knowingly attempt to corrupt our voter rolls and weaken the voice of lawful Texas voters. I will make sure they face the full force of the law,” Paxton added.
According to Paxton, the instructions provided by the organization directly violated provisions of the Texas Election Code, which states that “voter registration agencies should only provide voter registration applications to United States citizens.”
As reflected in the investigation’s findings, the organization spearheaded the illegal immigration voter registration effort with the Volunteer Deputy Registrar to solicit illegal immigrants to submit fraudulent voter registration applications, which it could later use to register illegal immigrants to vote despite them lacking the proper documentation.
Paxton’s lawsuit aims to dismantle the organization’s chapter and confiscate its corporate privileges, as well as pay back the state’s legal costs.
The move from the Texas Attorney General comes after a Sep. 2024 consolidated brief request he filed against the organization, which demanded it to provide documentation of its operations. The organization then filed a complaint and a lawsuit against Paxton’s office, alleging that the consolidated brief request group violated the Voting Rights Act and the First and Fourth amendments.
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Paxton’s legal suit against the “radical activist organization” is the first lawsuit in the nation aimed at stopping illegal immigrants from voting in U.S. elections, a move Republicans have long touted that Democrats have pushed back on.
At least 14 million illegal immigrants have made their way to the United States in recent years, 1.7 million of whom reside in Texas.
