Overview
- Reporting published Tuesday by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found public records showing Paxton voted in six recent elections using a Collin County address he no longer appeared to occupy, including the May runoff that sealed his Republican Senate nomination.
- Two weeks before the March primary Paxton’s office launched a voter-fraud tip line and published guidance that explicitly said voters must register at the address where they actually live.
- Angela Paxton’s divorce filing says Ken Paxton moved out of the Collin County home roughly two years ago, and reporters have linked him to a Denton County property since February, leaving his residency over the last two years unclear.
- Election lawyers say voting while registered at a nonresidential address can be a second-degree felony in Texas with fines and prison time, but they also note proving intent and where someone actually lived is often difficult in practice and there are no public charges yet.
- Paxton’s campaign called the reporting a “baseless, lie-filled tabloid story,” and newsrooms say they received little substantive response to detailed questions as scrutiny grows over the political and legal stakes for an incumbent attorney general and Senate nominee.