Texas Insider Report: HOUSTON Texas The Texas Democratic Party filed yet another meritless lawsuit today against Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector & Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez in an apparent attempt to intimidate Vasquez & his investigation of questionable voter registration applications submitted on behalf of a supposed non-partisan" group Houston Votes. It has been widely reported that the Advisory Board of Houston Votes is heavily stacked with notable Democrats.
Said Vasquez os the filed suit Houston Votes has taken off its non-partisan mask by sending in the Democratic Party machinery to fight its losing battle. They cant deny the evidence this Office has put forward of their misdeeds; so they try to divert attention by once again slandering this Office again.
The Tax Office has per the law fully and completely processed each and every application that has been submitted to it even those that evidence obvious questionability. It is our duty to refer that questionable work over to law enforcement.
It is the Texas Democratic Party that is making reckless and baseless allegations. No third party group has been granted access to any confidential information of any voter outside of legal open records requests available to any citizen. We
continue to zealously guard voter data.
The Tax Office met today with representatives of the Democratic Party to discuss their concerns. However the Democrats were not interested in discussing actual facts.
As we have seen in the past their lawsuit is just about political posturing.
In 2008 the Democrats never identified one single voter who was denied the
opportunity to vote. We resolved the case by reaffirming the best practices in full accordance with all applicable laws already in effect at the Tax Office.
The resolution allowed
Tax Office staff to return to work -- the work of registering every eligible citizen of Harris County to vote.
We look forward to having this frivolous lawsuit dismissed and completing that task."
