A Texas woman on June 16 pleaded guilty to 26 counts of voter fraud committed during a local water board election in 2018.
Monica Mendez, 36, of Port Lavaca ran a “vote-harvesting operation on behalf of a subsidized housing corporation in order to influence the outcome of a utility board election,” the Texas Attorney General’s (AG) office said in a statement on Friday. The election in question was the 2018 Victoria County Water Control and Improvement District 1 Election in Bloomington, Texas.
Mendez pleaded guilty to 26 felony counts of voter fraud, including three counts of illegal voting, eight counts of election fraud, seven counts of assisting a voter to submit a ballot by mail, and eight counts of unlawful possession of a mail ballot, the office said….