CRTX Newsletter: October 28, 2024 Edition

Houston, Texas – Attorney Jared Woodfill, Woodfill Law Firm, has filed a lawsuit, Hotze v. Bennett on behalf of Steven F. Hotze, M.D., Senate District 15 Candidate Joseph L. Trahan, and Congressional District 7 Candidate Caroline Kane. This petition seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against Ann Harris Bennett, the Voter Registrar of Harris County, regarding multiple instances of election alterations of election procedures which must be declared illegal and stopped immediately.

Because Bennett has chosen not to fulfill her statutory duties, the Harris County voter registration roll contains over 562,000 illegal names of persons on the voter registration file, such as voters who have moved out of Harris County, voters who have died, voters who are felons, voters who have registered at post office or private mail boxes with commercial mail receiving agencies (“CMRAs”), scores of voters who are not related to each other but have registered at the same address, voters who have registered at a commercial address and do not reside there, and voters who claim to live on vacant property with no structure, utilities, or other indications of actual residency.

The Texas Election Code requires that each county update its voter files every month. This has not been done in Harris County since the Democrats took over the office in 2016.

This lawsuit seeks: (i) to force the Harris County Voter Registrar to monitor and maintain the accuracy and integrity of Harris County’s voter registration roll; (ii) to remove those listed on the voter registration role who are not eligible to remain listed; (iii) to review the National Change of Address database on a monthly basis, and, when necessary, investigate specific instances where a voter’s registration status in Harris County should be reasonably questioned; (iv) to promptly review and determine challenges to the registration status of a voter; (v) to promptly initiate confirmation notices to voters whose registration status has or may have come into question; (vi) to ensure that voters are placed on a suspense list so that their current residency credentials may be determined through a statement of residence form required to be filled out as a prerequisite to voting; and (vii) all other actions necessary to force compliance with the voter registration roll. 

Dr. Hotze stated, “Texans have every right to be concerned about vote fraud. We will be tracking every illegal name on the voter file to determine whether they cast a vote. Allowing votes to be cast for names illegally on the voter file is vote fraud. It is a frontal assault on democracy and election integrity.”