CRTX Newsletter: Hotze v. Bennett Vote Fraud Lawsuit

The following letter regarding the Hotze v. Bennett lawsuit was sent by Federal Express to all the statewide elected officials in Texas, as well U.S. Senators Cruz and Cornyn.

Please receive my kind regards which I extend to you with this letter.

With this correspondence I am going to ask you to consider filing an amicus brief supporting our lawsuit, Hotze v. Bennett, which, when won, will require the Harris County Tax Assessor Collector to update the voter registration file in Harris County. Following below, I have detailed the current problem that exists in the Harris County registration file.

Harris County, Texas has a massive problem with illegal names being on the voter registration list. There are over 600,000 names with illegal addresses out of 2.6 million registered voters. 400,000 of these names are people who now live out of the county or out of the state. This is based on an analysis by Russ Ramsland who owns a data analytics firm in Dallas. Russ worked with the Trump White House to identify vote fraud after the 2020 election. Russ has investigated vote fraud by computer in Mesa, Colorado, in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia to name a few. He is an expert in the field.

Russ Ramsland evaluated the Harris County voter registration list as of August 24, 2024 and ran it against the U.S. Post Office National Change of Address (NCOA). He found approximately 600,000 names on the voter registration list with illegal addresses. Approximately 400,000 of these names on the voter registration list lived outside of Harris County or outside the State of Texas.

According to the Texas Election Code, §15.022, every county is required to update their voter registration list with the NCOA every month and eliminate those names of people that have moved.

Since 2016, when the Democrats won the election for the Harris County Tax Assessor Collector Office, which serves as the voter registrar for Harris County, the voter registration list has not been updated.

Of the 400,000 illegal names on the voter registration list who live outside the county or the state, 205,000 voted in the recent 2024 General Election. The Democrats keep these names on file and then vote them as needed.

In 2012 Ted Cruz carried Harris County by approximately 200,000 votes. In 2018 he lost by 200,000 votes, though he carried the vote statewide. That’s a 400,000 vote swing which is highly unlikely to have occurred without vote fraud. Harris County had been a red county prior to the Democrats taking over the Tax Assessor Collector Office in 2016. The county then turned completely blue.

It seems that it should be obvious that the Democrats have been stealing elections in Harris County.

On October 22, 2024, I filed a lawsuit in Harris County in Texas State District Court 157, presided over by Judge Tanya Garrison, Hotze v. Bennett, which would require the Harris County Tax Assessor Collector to clean up the voter registration list. Joining me as plaintiffs in this lawsuit were Sid Miller, Texas Agricultural Commissioner, and two Republican candidates, Joe Trahan, who ran for State Senate District 15, and Caroline Kane, who ran for Congressional District 7.

Governor Abbott and his Secretary of State Jane Nelson allowed an audit, after the 2024 General Election, to be conducted in Harris County by the Democrats who oversaw the election. As you would expect, the Democrats found no vote fraud.

I requested in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 1, 2025, asking her to direct the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the voter registration list in Harris County that has over 600,000 illegal mailing addresses. I received a letter from the Justice Department dated September 8, 2025 from Edward Sullivan, Acting Chief, Public Integrity Section, instructing me to contact the local FBI. If the FBI determined that there had been a federal violation, then the Department of Justice informed me that they would become involved. I have tried several times, unsuccessfully, to reach the local FBI Director of Election Integrity.

The first court hearing in Hotze v. Bennett was on April 10, 2025. The Harris County Attorney’s office, under the direction of Christian Menefee, the County Attorney, made a motion for Judge Garrison to dismiss the case, stating that none of the plaintiffs had standing to file a lawsuit against the Tax Assessor Collector.

When Judge Garrison, a Democrat, asked the attorney for the county, “If these plaintiffs don’t have standing then who would have standing to bring this lawsuit?” The county attorney said that “no one has standing to bring the lawsuit.” Judge Garrison disagreed and denied their motion for dismissing the case.

On April 28, 2025, the county attorney’s office appealed Judge Garrision’s decision to the First Court of Appeals. We are currently waiting on a decision from the First Court of Appeals which contains a majority of Republicans. We anticipate that the First Court of Appeals will uphold Judge Garrison’s denial of the county’s motion to dismiss the case.

I would like you to consider filing an amicus brief supporting our lawsuit.

If needed, I can get you an affidavit from my computer analyst, Russ Ramsland, for your records.

By removing the illegal names from the Harris County voter registration list, we can ensure that we have fair and honest elections in Harris County. It appears that the Democrats have been committing massive vote fraud at least since a Democrat was elected Harris County Tax Assessor Collector in 2016. By cleaning up the voter list, Harris County will undoubtedly be controlled by the Republicans. This will also ensure that the Democrats will not turn Texas purple or blue.

Thank you for your attention to this crucial matter.

Thanking you for your leadership, I remain, as always,

Sincerely yours in Christ our King,