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Making an Impact

“The Lone Star Project … hammers Republicans whenever it gets a chance, promoting strong local Democratic candidates and even bringing lawsuits.”
(Roll Call, Stuart Rothenberg,
March 12, 2009)

“Anyone who questions whether [The Lone Star Project] can make life difficult for a Republican legislator should talk to former Sen. Kim Brimer.”
(Austin American Statesman, February 17, 2009)

“[The Lone Star Project] is responsible for the aggressive stance the party has taken toward DeLay and other Lone Star State Republicans since the 2004 election.”
(The Washington Post, March 6, 2006)

"David Dewhurst has said most Texans don't have much sympathy "for someone who that can't fill out a two page [health insurance] application every six months".

The Democrat-supported Lone Star Project in Washington reported this week that Dewhurst failed to file necessary forms at least six times in recent years.
(San Antonio Expres News,, 4/12/2007)

"The Justice staff memo was obtained by the Lone Star Project ...The story broke the same day the U.S. Supreme Court was considering legal challenges to the plan brought by Democrats and minority groups."
(Houston Chronicle, 12/3/2005)

"The Texas chapter of the NAACP, along with the Lone Star Project, have analyzed the amicus brief filed by the Justice Department and have concluded, justifiably, that the Voting Rights section of the Justice Department is now controlled by partisan political appointees."
(Roll Call - Donna Brazile, 2/28/2006)

AG Abbott Steps Up Harassment and Suppression Efforts
Abbott Agents Caught Spying on Senior Citizen
Lone Star Project Supports Legal Challenge to Abbott

Lone Star Project Fights Back!

The Lone Star Project is helping prepare a formal challenge to the Texas mail ballot statute. A law suit is expected to be filed this week in federal court claiming the statute violates both the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Details of the challenge will be made available soon.

Earlier this summer, the Lone Star Project reported that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is using $1.5 million in federal grant funds to prosecute Texas citizens who help senior citizens apply for ballot applications and cast their vote by mail. Most of the Texans being prosecuted by Abbott are senior citizens, African American or Hispanic, and ALL are Democrats.
(Read the LSP Report HERE)

More recently, the San Antonio Express-News wrote about Abbott's controversial activity. (Read the Story Here) Abbott has turned up the heat by sending investigating agents to the homes of elderly citizens to interrogate them in person. There is now evidence that Abbott's agents have moved beyond aggressive questioning and are employing more intimidating tactics.

Sworn Statement Details AG Agents Spying on Elderly Woman

According to the sworn statement of Ms. Gloria Meeks, a 69 year-old Fort Worth community activist, two of Abbott's voter fraud agents came on to her property and looked into her bathroom window while she was unclothed and leaving the shower. Incredibly, the agents justified their privacy violation by explaining, that they thought they were peeping in the "kitchen window." Read Gloria Meeks sworn statement HERE.

Vote Fraud Unit Ineffective and Biased:
In Texas, an average of over 5 million votes has been cast in General Elections since 1998. Abbott's task force has indicted only 13 individuals, involving fewer than 50 ballots, which represents less than one of every 100,000 ballots typically cast in Texas. The indictments do not involve massive, or even organized, voter fraud. 10 of Abbott's 13 indictments do not even allege that an individual voter was defrauded. In these 10 instances, Abbott prosecuted individuals who appear to have done little more than mistakenly help senior citizens by delivering already completed and sealed ballots to the post office or an elections administration office.

Ballots Cast in Texas Elections

Election	Turnout
2004 General	7,410,749
2002 General	4,553,979
2000 General	6,407,637
1998 General	3,738,078
Average Votes Cast in the Last 4 Election	5,527,611
Ballots in Question in all the AG indictments	50
Percentage of Ballots in Question	0.000009045

(Source: Secretary of State Election Returns, TX Attorney General Press Releases)

Racially and Politically Biased: Virtually all of those prosecuted are African American or Hispanic senior citizens with Democratic voting history. Most of these cases involve very elderly or disabled voters who depend on trusted friends to help them vote, and without whose assistance, they would have no way to cast a ballot at all.

Breakdown of Abbott's 13 Indictments

Minorities Indicted (9 Hispanics, 3 African Americans)	12 of 13	92%
People over age 50	8 of 13	62%
People over age 60	5 of 13	38%
Democrats	13 of 13	100%

(Source: TX Attorney General Press Releases and Secretary of State Voting Records)

Abbott's Political Pandering: Despite what appear to be cases of victimless errors by well meaning citizens, Abbott has diligently sought press and political attention to take credit for these prosecutions.

Abbott has established a political online activist group called "Abbott's Army" and repeatedly bragged to them about his efforts to prosecute mail ballot community activists.
Abbott's official office has issued dozens of self-congratulatory press releases paid for with taxpayer funds and then posted them word-for-word on his campaign website.
(Source: Texans for Greg Abbott website)

The Lone Star Project is an activity of the Lone Star Fund.

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