Four men and women were indicted last week in Brooks County, TX on charges of voter fraud, which allegedly involved registering voters to uninhabited vacant lots and some voters voting more than once. The Monitor reported the story.
This is a timely story–a voter ID bill has recently been debated in Texas, as its proponents believe it would guard against voter fraud. The measure was blocked (read news article here) in the Senate on May 24–even a post-operative Senator Mario Gallegos was present in a hospital bed to help block the bill.