The Lone Star Project has the details of the lawsuit filed against Attorney General Greg Abbott over his office's investigations into allegations of voter fraud (see here for background). You can read the full complaint here (PDF). Here's the executive summary:
Plaintiffs assert that the challenged statutes enacted in Texas in 2003 violate both the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act by denying senior citizens and community activists the ability to receive and provide legally protected assistance to participate in elections and, in the case of challenged ballots, the very right to have their vote counted. The suit further asks the Court to block Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's current efforts to prosecute community activists and other individuals who assist senior citizens and the disabled in completing the mail ballot process and then help insure that completed ballots are mailed or delivered properly to election offices. It is a narrowly drawn complaint that seeks to correct a technical flaw in the Texas Election Code that is being exploited by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to selectively prosecute and suppress elderly, minority, disabled, and Democratic voters.
Just a note here to clarify the Attorney General's role in this case. The AG is the government's lawyer. In each of the voter fraud cases offered, an official has asked the AG to act on behalf of him/her in a case. People tend to forget this, lose this, are too partisan to recognize this. It's like suing someone for doing his/her job. Which I guess you can do. They just did.
Posted by: KImmy on September 25, 2006 10:56 PM