On Wednesday, Texas Legal professional Normal Ken Paxton introduced the arrest of six individuals, together with public officers in Frio County, for taking part in an unlawful vote harvesting scheme.
The people had been arrested on the earlier Friday excluding the Frio County Decide Rochelle Lozano Camacho who was not processed on the time.
On Friday, Decide Rochelle Lozano Camacho turned herself in to police and charged with vote harvesting throughout her major election. Camacho had been coping with medical points.
Based on IJR, Decide Camacho campaigned on a message of “UNITY, MOVEMENT and PROGRESSION FOR FRIO COUNTY.”
Her sister, the county’s trustee, was additionally arrested within the vote harvesting scheme.
Based on IJR:
The fees stem from a multi-year investigation launched in 2022 after Camacho’s opponent within the Democratic major runoff, Mary Moore, filed a criticism, San Antonio-based ABC affiliate KSAT reported. Moore accused Camacho of hiring a longtime Democrat operative to collect mail ballots, full functions, and even drive voters to polling areas. She allegedly paid them between $1,500 and $2,500.
Camacho allegedly focused aged voters in a Pearsall, Texas subdivision, Newsweek reported. One in all Camacho’s companions within the scheme reportedly hid ballots below her shirt and used a number of automobiles to keep away from detection from investigators.
From our earlier report.
The Texas Attorney General’s website reported:
Legal professional Normal Ken Paxton introduced the indictments and arrests of six folks, together with a number of public officers, for election crimes associated to a vote harvesting scheme in Frio County.
“The folks of Texas deserve honest and trustworthy elections, not backroom offers and political insiders rigging the system. Elected officers who suppose they will cheat to remain in energy can be held accountable. Nobody is above the legislation,” stated Legal professional Normal Paxton. “My workplace will proceed to work with Frio County District Legal professional Audrey Louis to guard the integrity of our elections.”
In August 2024, Legal professional Normal Paxton’s Felony Investigation Division executed a number of search warrants in Frio, Atascosa, and Bexar Counties as a part of a multi-year election integrity investigation into credible allegations of vote harvesting. On Might 1, 2025, Frio County District Legal professional Audrey Louis and the Election Integrity Unit of the Workplace of the Legal professional Normal offered a prison vote harvesting case to a grand jury in Frio County. The grand jury returned true payments for the next indictments:
- Frio County Decide, Rochelle Camacho: 3 counts of Vote Harvesting
- Former Frio County Elections Administrator, Carlos Segura: 1 rely of Tampering with or Fabricating Bodily Proof
- Pearsall Metropolis Council, Ramiro Trevino: 1 rely of Vote Harvesting
- Pearsall Metropolis Council, Racheal Garza: 1 rely of Vote Harvesting
- Pearsall ISD Trustee, Adriann Ramirez: 3 counts of Vote Harvesting
- Alleged Frio County Vote Harvester, Rosa Rodriguez: 2 counts of Vote Harvesting
Every suspect was arrested on Might 2, 2025, except for Rochelle Camacho, who can be processed at a later date.
