Vote Fraud in Texas

Former state Rep. Steve Wolens, a Democrat from Dallas, authored the 2003 law creating criminal penalties for individuals who knowingly possess or transport another voter's official ballot. . . . He said he wrote the law to stop underhanded tactics used against him in his own Democratic primaries and against his wife in her first Dallas mayoral race.

"The problem I had seen was where these vote harvesters would go to old folks homes and bring empty ballots — and vote for the actual voter — and then deliver them in these sacks just like piles of stolen money," he said.