Texas law requires eligible voters to register no later than 30 days before an election. In our busy lives, too many fail to register or maintain their registration. Texas is often criticized among the fifty states for being an unnecessarily difficult place to vote.

Texas law enumerates a handful of election-related offenses, but the attorney general is taking aim at legal activities now too.

Paxton sued after officials voted moved forward with plans to mail voter registration applications to unregistered county residents.

HOUSTON — With less than a month to go until the deadline to register to vote in Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton continues to target the issue of voter registration while civil rights groups express concern over the potential impact of his efforts.

On Wednesday morning, Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit in state district court to stop it from doing so. It’s the latest escalation in a month’s worth of increasingly aggressive efforts to crack down on the specter of “voter fraud,