Wayne Schneider said he was surprised when he received a letter from his local tax office saying someone in his household wasn’t registered to vote.
That’s because the letter was addressed to his mother and included a registration form with her name on it, despite the fact that she’s no longer alive.
“It’s been 16 years since my mother passed away, and this is the first time we’ve ever gotten anything like this,” Schneider of Manor told 13 Investigates. “My wife said, you know, we really ought to report that, so give it to me, I’ll take care of it.”
Paxton launched the email tip line on Aug. 28, saying, “significant growth of the noncitizen population in Texas and a pattern of partisan efforts to illegally weaponize voter registration and the voting process to manipulate electoral outcomes have created urgent risks to local, state, and federal elections.”
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, lists just six criminal convictions since 2020 in Texas on its election fraud database.