Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is calling on Republican lawmakers to treat election integrity as a priority issue, making the remarks in an interview with Breitbart News published Tuesday. “There are certain states where we still control legislatures and we still have governors,” Paxton told the outlet in an interview recorded during the recent Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, but published only this week. Election integrity came to the forefront in a dramatic way in 2020, with former President Donald Trump and his allies making claims that reduced security measures—primarily around mail-in ballots—led to fraud that cheated him out of victory. “I would encourage them to work with the legislature in those states and make sure that their laws are tightened up,” Paxton said, adding, “because the credibility of these elections is so important.” “We don’t want to be Venezuela,” he said. “We don’t want to be another …