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Efforts. but earlier this year he tried to indict debuavoir over unlawfully obstructing a poll watcher that could bring up a year in jail. it was a pretty trumped-up charge and it did not fly, even in paxton's hand-picked venue of williamson county, known for more conservative leanings. a grand jury returned a no bill in april, meaning they refused to hand down the indictment that the attorney general asked for. it all sounds so tidy in the past tense, but debeauvoir lived through months of uncertainty. attorney general paxton pursued her tart starting in november 2020. it wasn't until july sh...

The state ag, ken paxton, who himself remains under indictment for securities fraud and reportedly under a federal investigation over whistle-blower complaints. that same ken paxton has accused her of obstructing a poll watcher. a charge that was ultimately dismissed but which could have meant up to a year in prison. that local election official is now speaking out, warning of the intimidation she and other election officials have faced over lies about election fraud. intimidation, that threatens the next elections and poses dire consequences to american democracy. outfront now is travis count...

Texas attorney general ken paxton pursued criminal charges against her over her. some of it was successful. she said in an interview, i did not expect it. paxton's office saw to indict this woman on a charge of unlawfullily obstructing a poll watcher would be a class a misdemeanor. i read it because we talk about the future threat to american democracy, that these laws -- these laws pose. but it looks like it's already happening. we're seeing it like in -- on the ground right now. even in nonelection years. so just give us a sense, if you would, of how tangible you think this is, not far off f...

January 6th committee will be. maybe not so much. there is already a lot that's happening that is going to affect the next election at the local level. cnn has reported on this, sara murray and jeremy had a fascinating story earlier about people at the local level, trump supporters, people who disagree with the election outcome who are getting into very kind of, you know, niche poll watcher-type type of jobs that will have control over what happens in the coming election at the very local level. that doesn't mean they're going to change votes or anything, but in the next election there will be...

Democratic terry mcauliffe and republican glenn youngkin. poll watchers have already been seen at several early voting locations and in some of their training courses, according to "the washington post," quote, prospective poll watchers have been taught to see themselves as a bulwark against election fraud, and some groups have been corralling their own poll watcher armies. voting rights advocates call poll watching another barrier for voters, especially voters of colors, not to mention new voting laws passed since the 2020 election. the brennan law center have tracked at least 19 states that ...