Texas voter fraud? ‘Elections have been stolen,’ Lon Burnam says
FORT WORTH --If Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is going to mount his biggest crackdown yet on voter fraud, Tarrant County is a strange place for it.
But Texas’ most reliably red Republican urban county is now supposedly the focus of at least a preliminary vote-by-mail fraud investigation, and a former Democratic lawmaker said Thursday that it in part involves his 2014 defeat.
Former state Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, sued to challenge his 110-vote loss to now-state Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. Burnam dropped the suit in June 2014 after courts refused to order county election officials to release vote-by-mail applications for review.
Burnam said he helped North Richland Hills political consultant Aaron Harris craft a complaint that brought investigators to Fort Worth this week. Harris has partnered with Dallas hotelier Monty Bennett to campaign against incumbent directors on the Fort Worth-based Tarrant Regional Water District board.
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