A small county allegedly has a Texas-sized voter fraud problem, as a grand jury indicted six people, including local officials.
The six were charged in an alleged vote harvesting scheme in Frio County, Texas, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced Wednesday.
Several states have cracked down on ballot harvesting, which is when political operatives distribute and collect large quantities of absentee ballots.
Frio County Judge Rochelle Camacho, a Democrat and the county’s top official, was charged with three counts of vote harvesting, according to the attorney general’s office.
Pearsall City Council members Ramiro Trevino and Racheal Garza were both charged with one count of vote harvesting. Pearsall Independent School District Trustee Adriann Ramirez was charged with three counts of vote harvesting, according to the attorney general’s…
