A Texas judge on Monday tossed Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit seeking to block Bexar County – which encompasses the city of San Antonio – from sending out registration forms to new voters and encourage them to participate in the democracy, something Paxton warned might end up with ineligible people added to the voter rolls, the Texas Tribune reports.

Paxton had responded to the county commission’s September 3rd vote to send out the forms, vowing he would “use all available legal means” to stop them and filing his lawsuit the very next day.

Then Paxton failed to send one of his minions to a hearing to request an injunction and on Monday Judge Antonia Arteaga dismissed the case because the forms have already been mailed out.

In what at first seems to be unrelated news but no it actually is very much related to Paxton’s recent all-out crusade against local jurisdictions for conducting elections within the discretion they are permitted by statute, the Tribune also reported Monday that 29 county Republican Party chairs have signed an open letter warning of a “grave and deteriorating” cash and canvassing operation on the ground in the southern part of the state and that absent the leadership slapping a “well-funded, statewide” initiative together now, “we will get destroyed in mail ballots which will narrow Trump’s margin, threaten Cruz’s re-election, and harm all of our targeted down ballot races.”