Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation of illegal votes cast in the 2020 and 2022 elections, which alleges more than 100 potential noncitizens illegally cast more than 200 ballots.

“Illegal aliens and foreign nationals must not be allowed to influence Texas elections by casting illegal ballots with impunity,” Paxton wrote in a statement announcing the investigation. “I will not allow it to continue.”

The probe lends at least some credence to President Donald Trump’s campaign claims that there was voter fraud in the contested 2020 presidential election, and Paxton’s investigation suggested it might have continued during former President Joe Biden’s administration into the 2022 midterms.

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