Was a Biden election official arrested for voter fraud in Texas. A Texas official linked to president elect Joe Biden
was arrested in Texas for engaging in voter fraud. The rating is not true
Shortly after the arrest of a Texas woman accused of election tampering right wing social media users began trying to spin the case into an
attack on us. President elect Joe Biden's decisive win over outgoing President Donald Trump embattled State Attorney General Ken
Paxton announced on January 13, 2021 that Rachel Rodriguez also identified as Raquel Rodriguez in news coverage was charged with election
fraud, illegal voting, unlawfully assisting people voting by mail and unlawfully possessing an official ballot citing a video produced by the right wing group project
Veritas which has a history of releasing dishonestly edited sting videos. The arrest was quickly churned out online with more inflammatory
language breaking. Biden. Election official has been arrested for widespread election fraud in Texas
Felony charges include election fraud, illegal voting, illegal vote by mail possession of official ballots
Election fraud is investigated and prosecuted in Texas, Georgia. Get busy while the tweet does link to Paxton's actual press release
The attorney General office's statement makes no mention of her political affiliation
But an October 2020 report on the video in the San Antonio Express news debunked the claim that Rodriguez is a Biden official
According to the newspaper, the employee is described as a consultant for Maro Garza
the Republican challenger to us congressman Joaquin Castro di San Antonio Garza said in an email that he welcomed an investigation
into the outlandish allegations and that he does not support or tolerate voter fraud
In the video, Rodriguez is seen telling a project Veritas operative that several local officials enlist her help in gathering petition signatures
She specifically identifies Democrat Nicole Garza who ran to be the judge for the 37 th civil district court and Republican Rene Yanta who ran
for the chief justice seat on the fourth court of criminal appeals between me and you
I've got four judges that are calling me right now. Rodriguez says in the heavily edited video
they're like we want to be a part of this group. So if we pay you $3500 each
that's like 12 grand dude paying me dollar 3500 to make sure that their name is on the ballot
sued Rodriguez for defamation after the video's release saying that she has never paid anyone to harvest ballots for her and that she had never
done. So, Garza said in a statement, I am deeply troubled by the notion that someone could simply make a false statement about me or
anyone else on video and that no one would take the time to ask whether the allegations were true
After the video's release. Rodriguez said that she was lying to Veritas operatives who she believed represented an anonymous candidate for the San Antonio City
Council seeking help. It was just conversation like the B sing. She said at the time they were pulling me and I was pulling their
strings. That's how I saw it. Little did I know what they were doing
But I knew something was wrong and I just went with it. The group behind the video has a long standing and well earned reputation
of pushing disinformation, the media ysis site, media bias fact check rates them as a questionable source saying during
the 2020 election project, veritas promoted misleading and false information in general
All stories on project veritas advance the conservative agenda while denigrating the left often in a misleading way
In one specific case, researchers at the University of Washington determined that one veritas video accusing Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar had illegally
harvested ballots was illegitimate. It's a great example of what a co ordinated disinformation campaign looks like preceding the ground
and then simultaneously hitting from a bunch of different accounts. At once
Lead researcher Mike Stamos told the New York Times the man featured in that video
Leban Osman later admitted that a veritas operative had offered him $10,000 to claim that Omar was illegally collecting ballots
So you're saying a co ordinated misinformation campaign by a known fraud was actually a fraud
This is on brand for Trump and his stooges, fraudsters who love concocting desperate racist conspiracies and chaos in an effort to distract the public
from their failures. Ilhan Omar at Ilhan Mn October 6 2020. In the statement announcing Rodriguez's
arrest Paxton who was subpoenaed by federal officials in December 2020 after former staff members accused him of corruption
described Rodriguez's arrest as a vindication. Many continue to claim that there is no such thing as election fraud
He claimed we've always known that such a claim is false and misleading and today we have additional hard evidence
Paxton did not mention that the Republican claim that the 2020 presidential elections were marred by fraud which inspired a seditious attack by Republican supporters
and officials against the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 has been robustly defeated across the US legal system and otherwise debunked
Paxton's statement also failed to mention whether he would respond to Pennsylvania
Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman S revelation that three Republicans in that state committed actual voter fraud thus entitling Fetterman to a $1 million
reward. Paxton had offered. Paxton has not yet paid up