The people who write and enforce voting laws should have to follow them. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton built a public crusade against "illegal voting," set up a tip line, and warned that it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records. Reporting now shows he voted in six elections over two years from a Collin County house he moved out of years ago, while he has been linked to a home in another county.
The double standard is the point. Texas sentenced Crystal Mason to five years in prison over a provisional ballot that was never even counted, and it took years and an appeals court to throw the conviction out. Ordinary Texans have faced handcuffs and prosecution for honest mistakes about their eligibility, while the state's top law enforcement officer appears to have done the very thing his office warns is a crime.
One rule has to apply to everyone. I am asking you to support an independent review of the attorney general's voter registration under the same standard his office applies to the public, and to end the selective, headline-driven voter-fraud prosecutions that criminalize good-faith errors by regular voters while officials skate. Voting law should protect the vote, not serve as a weapon that points only one direction.