False claims of widespread voter fraud have been given unearned amplification not just by the president, but by right-wing groups working on the ground in various states to convert those false claims into voting restrictions and overzealous voter-roll purges.

“Unprecedented” is a word that has been used a lot in the past few years — including this week.

New documents offer an inside look at the troublingly close relationships between election officials and voting-restriction advocates in the Lone Star State.

Mientras informes sobre suppression de los votantes y vulnerabilidad de sistemas electorales siguen a surgir de Texas, documentos nuevos obtenido por American Oversight ofrecen un visto a los vínculos íntimos entre oficiales de elecciones y defensores de las restricciones al voto en el estado conocido como La Estrella Solitaria.

Texas Secretary of State emails with voting fraud activists, who have prominently claimed that voter fraud is widespread and advocated for restrictions on voting. These emails span from 2017 to 2019.

Public Information Request to Texas Secretary of State seeking communications with public figures and activists, such as former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who have prominently claimed that voter fraud is widespread and advocated for restrictions on voting.