Overview

• Frio County Judge Rochelle Camacho and five others have been indicted for alleged vote harvesting, with five arrests made on May 2 and Camacho to be processed later.
• The charges stem from a multi-year investigation by Attorney General Ken Paxton, involving raids in Frio, Atascosa, and Bexar counties in August 2024.
• The indictments were issued under Texas's 2021 Senate Bill 1, which criminalizes compensated ballot collection and carries severe penalties.
• Latino voting rights activists, including LULAC, claim the arrests target Hispanic officials and represent voter suppression, though Paxton denies such motives.
• The investigation remains ongoing, and legal battles over the constitutionality of Senate Bill 1 continue following a federal court ruling temporarily halting its enforcement last year.