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Mexican Citizen Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison For Voter Fraud
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter DALLAS (CBS11) – The family of a woman convicted of voter fraud is speaking out after a Tarrant County jury sentenced her to eight years in prison. Prosecutors...
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Lawyer: ‘Pro-Trump’ Attitudes Part Of Voter Fraud Sentence
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A lawyer for a Mexican national sentenced to eight years in prison for voter fraud in Texas said Friday that President Donald Trump’s claims...
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Texas Woman Sentenced To Prison For Voter Fraud Out On Appeal
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (AP) – A lawyer for a Mexican national sentenced to eight years in prison for voter fraud in Texas says she’s been released as her appeal is pending....
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State, County Watching For Fraud, Electioneering In Run-Off Races
DALLAS (CBS11) – Dallas County’s Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole says hundreds of mail ballots for the run-off elections Saturday won’t be counted until after election night. In an email,...
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District Attorney Sequesters Some Mail-In Ballots For Closer Scrutiny
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – After allegations of voter fraud prompted an investigation, elections officials stressed that Saturday night’s runoff results were not final. It may take days before an accurate...
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Texas Will Give Public Info To Trump Voter Fraud Commission
(credit: GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images) AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas election officials say they’ll provide public voter information to President Donald Trump’s commission that is investigating alleged...
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Trump Upset States Not Fully Cooperating With Voting Panel
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump is upset that all states aren’t fully cooperating with his voting commission’s request for detailed information about every voter in the United States. Some...
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Texas Senate Approves Stricter Voter Fraud Penalties
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Senate has preliminarily approved a bill increasing criminal penalties for stealing someone else’s mail-in ballot, part of an attempt to curb absentee voting fraud. Gov. Greg...
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Texas Judge Blocks Release Of Voting Records To Trump Panel
AUSTIN (AP) – A Texas judge has temporarily blocked state elections officials from turning over voting records to President Donald Trump’s commission investigating cases of voter fraud. State District...
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Denton Uses Old Fashioned Paper Ballots … Sort Of
DENTON (CBSDFW) – There are 468-thousand registered voters in Denton County and only two percent of those have voted. This election day the voters are taking a step back in time and using paper...
View ArticleDallas Man Goes To Jail After Voter Fraud Plea
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A 28-year-old Dallas-area man has been sentenced to about six months in jail after pleading guilty to a charge in an ongoing voter fraud investigation. A statement Wednesday...
View ArticleSalvadorian Immigrant Indicted For Voter Fraud In Texas
BEAUMONT (AP) — A man who Texas prosecutors say is in the United States illegally has been indicted by a federal grand jury for alleged voter fraud. Authorities announced Friday that 57-year-old Mario...
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4 Women Accused In Paid Voter Fraud Ring
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Four women are facing felony charges, accused of being part of what Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office called an organized voter fraud ring in Fort Worth. The voter fraud...
View ArticleDallas County Leaders Boost Election Protections
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Days before early voting begins (Monday, October 22), Dallas County Commissioners increased protection for its elections system against hackers. Commissioners voted in a...
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Voter Registration Application Sent To Dallas Woman Who Died 29 Years Ago
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Official voter registration applications have been showing up in the mailboxes of thousands of Texans. The problem is some applications were sent to people who have been dead for...
View ArticleDocuments Show More People Connected To Vote Harvesting Scheme In Tarrant County
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Court documents filed in this week name more people the State of Texas says were connected to a vote harvesting scheme in Tarrant County. The state indicted four women this...
View ArticleDallas County GOP Concerned About Possible Mail-In Ballot Fraud
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas County Republicans asked a judge to sequester thousands of mail-in ballots over concerns of potential voter fraud. But on Wednesday, the judge denied the request, saying...
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Voter Fraud Conviction Of North Texas Woman Upheld By Appeals Court
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) – The Texas 2nd Court of Appeals upheld the voter fraud conviction of Rosa Maria Ortega, State Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Tuesday. A Tarrant County jury found Ortega...
View ArticleTexas Secretary Of State Announces ‘Widespread Voter Fraud’ In 2018
AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Texas Secretary of State David Whitley announced on Friday the results of a year-long investigation into voter fraud. Whitley said his office has identified 95,000...
View ArticleGroups Slam Texas After Voters’ Citizenship Questioned
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Civil rights groups are asking Texas officials to walk back a letter that questioned the citizenship of thousands of voters and prompted President Donald Trump to renew...
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LULAC Sues Texas Secretary Of State, AG Over ‘Attempts To Suppress Latino...
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – LULAC filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against David Whitley, Texas Secretary of State and Ken Paxton, Attorney General regarding continued attempts by the State...
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Dallas County Says State’s List Of ‘Non-Citizen Voters’ Is Wrong; US Citizens...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A list of non-citizen voters compiled by the state of Texas is shrinking by the day. Last Friday, the state claimed close to 100,000 non-citizens in Texas voted statewide. Dallas...
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Civil Rights Organizations Suing Over Texas Voter Citizenship Review
TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Civil rights organizations are suing Texas officials about alleged plans to purge thousands of naturalized citizens from its voter rolls, a move that intentionally targets minority...
View ArticleTexas Secretary Of State Comments Since Sharing Flawed Noncitizen Voter List
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas’ election chief says he immediately gave prosecutors an ultimately flawed list 58,000 potential noncitizen voters “to get the data in the hands of someone who could do...
View ArticleAfter Nearly A Month Texas Secretary Of State Apologizes For Flawed...
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas’ election chief has apologized for releasing a botched list of nearly 100,000 voters whose citizenship was called into question before being fully vetted. Texas Secretary...
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Texas Secretary Of State Appointee Sees Mounting Opposition After Releasing...
AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A key Texas Democrat says he will not back Governor Greg Abbott’s embattled choice for Secretary of State, whose job is in peril over an inaccurate list of 95,000 voters...
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Federal Judge Orders Texas Not To Remove Voters After Botched List
AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Saying there is no evidence of widespread election fraud in Texas, a federal judge Wednesday blocked the removal of any registered voter after state Republican leaders...
View ArticleTexas AG Fights Congressional Request For Info On Bungled Citizen Voter List
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas’ attorney general is challenging efforts by Democrats in Congress to obtain documents related to the state’s bungled search for voters who aren’t U.S. citizens....
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Former Fort Worth Council Candidate Chris Nettles To Contest Election Against...
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Former candidate for Fort Worth’s District 8 council seat, Chris Nettles, announced Wednesday he will contest the election against incumbent Kelly Allen Gray, who won...
View ArticleAfter Bungled Voter List, Texas Secretary Of State David Whitley On Brink Of...
UPDATE: Texas Secretary Of State David Whitley Resigns On Final Day Of Legislative Session AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas’ embattled elections chief who wrongly questioned the U.S. citizenship of tens...
View ArticleTexas Secretary Of State David Whitley Resigns On Final Day Of Legislative...
AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas’ embattled elections chief who questioned the U.S. citizenship of tens of thousands of Texas voters who were legally registered to vote resigned effective...
View ArticleAfter US Citizenship Flub, Texas Governor Names Ruth Ruggero Hughs As New...
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed a new secretary of state after his previous elections chief resigned amid backlash for wrongly questioning the U.S. citizenship of tens...
View ArticleShe Was Imprisoned For Voter Fraud In Texas, Now Rosa Ortega Is On Parole And...
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – She was a legal resident of Tarrant County when she voted in several elections, but Rosa Maria Ortega was not a U.S. citizen. The then 37-year-old was charged with voter fraud...
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Carrollton Mayoral Candidate Zul Mirza Mohamed Arrested, Charged With 100+...
CARROLLTON (CBSDFW.COM) – A mayoral candidate in Carrollton has been arrested and charged with voter fraud. The Denton County Sheriff’s Office has Zul Mirza Mohamed in custody and charged him with 109...
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No, These Viral Videos Do Not Actually Show Election Fraud
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBSNEWS.COM) — As ballots were being counted on Election Day and afterward, numerous videos claiming election fraud went viral, fueling President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that...
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Offers Up To $1M Reward For ‘Voter Fraud...
Texas Republican, Democratic Leaders Differ Over Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s Cash Incentive To Find Voter Fraud HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick announced Tuesday, Nov. 10, he will...
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Texas Republican, Democratic Leaders Differ Over Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – An offer by Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has made national headlines. Patrick said he would spend a total of $1 million of his campaign funds as an incentive to people across...
View ArticleHouston-Based Conservative Group ‘True The Vote’ Ends State Lawsuits Alleging...
HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — They’re a Texas-based conservative group at the center of several lawsuits disputing the outcome of the presidential election. Now, after the leader of True the Vote made...
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Former Houston Police Captain Mark Aguirre Charged For Allegedly Holding Man...
HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A former Houston police captain was charged with assault on Tuesday, Dec. 15, after running a man off the road and holding him at gunpoint in an effort to prove what...
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Texas Republican Lawmakers Lead The Charge For New Criminal Penalties For...
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM/CNN) — Republican-controlled legislatures in Texas and across the country are adding new criminal penalties to their election laws. The changes come after record voter turnout...
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