Attorney General Greg Abbott said Tuesday that his office’s investigation of a Houston voter registration group that netted no prosecutions but left the organization in tatters was justified.
The 2010 investigation, which included an aggressive raid, targeted a group called Houston Votes, which was accused of voter fraud….
The News reported Sunday that the investigation was closed one year after the previously unreported 2010 raid, with no charges filed. But the funding for Houston Votes dried up, and its efforts to register more low-income voters in Harris County ended.
Its records and office equipment never were returned. Instead, under a 2013 court order obtained by Abbott’s office, they were destroyed.
The raid coincided with a local tea party group’s allegations of widespread voter fraud and the testimony of Fred Lewis, the president of the nonprofit parent group of Houston Votes, in the trial of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land.