Editorial: Greg Abbott Says Voter Fraud Is Real
Amarillo Globe-News
Cocaine for votes? If there is a more compelling case of voter fraud in Texas, we have yet to hear one, and hope we never do.
Those who claim voter fraud is nonexistent in Texas need to listen to Texas Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott — because he tells a different story.
Abbott, who visited with the Amarillo Globe-News editorial board Wednesday, made the case for the state’s voter ID law by detailing how voters in south Texas and the Rio Grande Valley support the law.
Why? Because of individuals in that part of the state who “were buying votes by using cocaine,” Abbott said.
According to the attorney general and gubernatorial hopeful: “Within this last month, there has been a massive FBI operation that has led to the arrests and guilty pleas” of at least one person who was using cocaine to obtain votes in a local election.
“That kind of voter fraud undermines the integrity of the election process,” Abbott said.
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