Showing why you can not trust Democrats on election integrity issues, PolitiFact Texas says a Texas Democratic organization made a false claim against Texas Attorney General and Gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott: Democrats hate prosecutions of voter fraud so much they lied about it.
Our ruling: The Lone Star Project said Abbott “converted over $1 million in federal grant money intended for use to prosecute online sexual predators and other cyber crimes and instead used it to harass and prosecute senior citizens who were assisting other senior citizens in applying for mail-in ballots.”Actually, less than $100,000 of a grant—less than one-fifteenth of it–was spent investigating alleged violations of election law. The grant aid also wasn’t restricted, or necessarily intended for, other purposes. So there was no conversion.Senior citizens were pursued, bur our sense is it’s an eye-of-the-beholder question whether the investigations were harassment.We rate this claim as False.