Last week, a Texas woman was arrested and charged with multiple counts of voter fraud dating back to a local 2018 election.
According to the official website of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Monica Mendez was arrested and booked into the Victoria County Jail after a grand jury returned an indictment against her on seven counts of illegal voting, eight counts of unlawfully assisting voter voting ballot by mail, eight counts of unlawful possession of a ballot, and another eight counts of election fraud.
Naturally, Texas Republicans were all over that.
“Voter fraud is real and Texas will prosecute it whenever and wherever it happens,” Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Saturday. “We will continue to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat. Thanks to the Texas Attorney General and all law-enforcement involved in this voter fraud case to ensure integrity in elections.”
Paxton responded with a bombshell for those still trying to prove widespread voter fraud decided the 2020 presidential election.
“We will prosecute voter fraud every time we find it,” he said. “Currently our office has over 500 cases waiting to be heard in court. Voter fraud is real. Texans deserve to know their vote is...