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AG Abbott Targeting Dems in His Voter Fraud Investigation?

Sunday's Dallas Morning News released a review of Attorney General Greg Abbott's two-year-long investigation into voter fraud in Texas. In the two years since the investigation started, no large schemes have been found. Abbott's office has seemed to focus the investigation on highly Democratic areas of the state and has "prosecuted 26 cases – all against Democrats, and almost all involving blacks or Hispanics," yesterday's article points out. People who mailed ballots for disabled or elderly people have been fined, and only 8 of the cases have involved real suspect activity such as voting for a dead relative, an attempt to double-vote, and registering non-existent people at actual addresses. An instance in Dallas where people lined up to vote on the gay marriage ban and an election judge turned in their ballots without properly checking identification was not investigated by the state.

[DMN: Texas attorney general's two-year effort fails to unravel large-scale voter-fraud schemes]

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