Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) will deploy poll watchers to “major counties” in the state on Election Day.

The announcement comes as the latest in three months of allegations by Texas Republicans against state and national Democrats. Intent on committing widespread voter fraud — Accusations for which the state GOP offered no evidence.

The “Election Day Rapid Response Legal Team” will “protect the ballot box from bad actors seeking to unfairly influence or illegally undermine Texas elections,” Paxton wrote in a post Monday.

His office said these teams would take action on issues ranging from “ballot shortages, extended closures of polling places and improper extensions of voting hours” to “activist groups that may attempt to influence the election through litigation.”

The state attorney general’s office and the state department are fighting with the Justice Department over the feds’ attempt to send monitors. “enforce federal voting rights laws.” in many key counties across the state — is what Secretary of State Jane Nelson (R) claimed. It’s against Texas law.

“Department of Justice observers are not permitted to enter polling places where votes are cast or the central counting station where votes are counted,” Nelson wrote.

The eight counties in question include three counties as well as two of Texas’ largest urban counties Where Paxton officers conducted searches Democratic campaigners and the Democratic candidate running for a newly opened seat in the state legislature.

Paxton is a close ally of former President Trump and is fighting a professional censure from the State Bar of Texas for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. In a post on social platform X last week, Called for Tuesday’s election “The most important election of our lives”

“We can’t afford to lose this,” he added.

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