A FEW WEEKS AGO, TEXAS TRIBUNE led the cheers for Houston Votes, which it characterized as a “nonpartisan” voter registration group targeting the Houston area. Of course, our cursory search indicated the board of the “nonpartisan” group was composed exclusively of Progressive/Democratic activists and donors, even though such a review apparently eluded the Texas Tribune reporter and editing staff.
Today, as Texas Watchdog reports, the Harris County Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez accused the group of voter fraud:
“The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes,” Vasquez said at a 2 p.m. press conference at his office, where he also released copies of applications in some of the most egregious cases.
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“Evidence shows that the Houston Votes and Texans Together organization are conspiring on a pattern of falsification of government documents, supporting perjury in a deliberate effort to overburden our processing system,” he said.
Vasquez compared the group to ACORN, another disgraced progressive organization.
Texas Watchdog has posted supporting documents from Vazquez’s office on their website.
UPDATE: Texas Watchdog posts more details here.
UPDATE (08/26/2010): Predictably, some of the lefty partybloggers who were touting Houston Votes have all weighed in with angry outbursts…. mainly about racist Republicans. When you got nothing, cry RACISM RACISM?! That dog has just about stopped hunting.
John Thornton’s Texas Tribune still has not provided an update to that embarrassingly bad puff piece they ran a few weeks ago.
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