Harris County elections officials find more than 100 voter registrations illegally tied to P.O. boxes
The Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector and Voter Registrar's Office has found more than 100 voter registrations linked to private post office boxes, in violation of state elections law, and the Texas Secretary of State has asked the office to review an additional 126 addresses.
The secretary of state began investigating after state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Houston Republican, filed a complaint earlier this year. His office identified voters whose home addresses were registered at UPS locations on Westheimer Road and Waugh Drive, in violation of legislation he authored.
"No one lives in a P.O. Box, and Texans cannot legally register to vote from one," Bettencourt said in a Monday statement in response to the investigation's findings. "It's the law, and it's been the law for four years in statute."
In response to Bettencourt's November complaint, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson threatened potential state oversight of elections in Harris County, where there were more than 2.6 million registered voters as of November 2024. Texas’ most populous county has become a Democratic stronghold in recent years, and its elections have come under scrutiny by the state’s Republican leaders, who have passed laws regulating how the county runs its elections.
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