Suspected felon Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who once blocked National Zero on Twitter for mocking his marital infidelity, has closed only 3 cases of suspected voter fraud statewide brought by his office’s “election integrity” unit between October 2020 and September 2021, the Houston Chronicle reports. During that time, the six attorneys assigned to the unit worked more than 20,000 hours, and the Texas legislature bumped its annual budget from $1.9 million to $2.2 million a year.
To prosecute three cases. And yet Paxton himself says he doesn’t have the resources to prosecute more of them. “I don’t think anybody knows the degree to which it happens because even our office who probably prosecutes more election fraud than anyone else in the country… We don’t have enough resources to cover all election fraud. So it’s really hard to know how large an issue this is because very few states put any resources in to actually detect or prosecute voter fraud” said Paxton, whose wife is a shitty amateur country music artist, on a recent podcast.