Texas Officials Indicted for Alleged Ballot Harvesting Scheme

A Texas grand jury returned an indictment against six people, including five current or former public officials, as part of a criminal investigation into a scheme to collect and submit absentee or mail-in voter ballots, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced Wednesday.

Those indicted include Frio County Judge Rochelle Camacho (D), the county’s top executive, and its former election administrator, Carlos Segura. Also charged were Pearsall City Council members Ramiro Trevino and Racheal Garza, Pearsall Independent School District trustee Adriann Ramirez, and Rosa Rodriguez, a Frio county voter who Paxton said gathered third-party ballots in a scheme known as ...