Ken Paxton Cracked Down on 'Illegal Voting.' He Voted Six Times From a House He Doesn't Live In.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have voted in six elections over the past two years from a home he no longer lives in, ProPublica and the Texas Tribune reported. He stayed registered at the family house in Collin County even though, by his own wife’s account, he moved out years ago. Experts told the outlets the arrangement may violate Texas election law.

The detail that makes it sting is his own words. When Paxton launched a voter-fraud tip line in February, his office told Texans to “provide the address where you reside when registering to vote” and warned that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”

What the Records Show

Angela Paxton, a state senator, said in a 2025 divorce filing that Paxton moved out of their Collin County home a year earlier and accused him of adultery. He kept the address on his voter registration anyway.

Reporters linked Paxton to a different home. In February, a trust bought a 5,000-square-foot, $2.4 million house in a gated Denton County community, and video from a podcast showed Paxton seated in front of a fireplace nearly identical to the one in the home’s real estate listing. Registering and voting where you no longer reside is the exact conduct his office told voters is against the law.

The Same Standard He Enforces on Others

Paxton has built a political brand on policing other people’s ballots. His six votes from the old address include the May Republican primary runoff that made him his party’s nominee for U.S. Senate. He faces Democrat James Talarico in November.

The contrast is not abstract. Texas sentenced Crystal Mason to five years in prison over a provisional ballot that was never counted, a conviction it took years and an appeals court to throw out. Ordinary Texans have been handcuffed and charged for honest mistakes about their eligibility. The state’s top prosecutor appears to have done the very thing he warns is a crime, and no one has read him his rights.

The Legal Question Experts Are Now Asking

This is no longer only a political embarrassment. Election law scholar Rick Hasen, among the most cited experts in the field, posted an item titled “Did Texas Attorney General (and U.S. Senate Candidate) Ken Paxton Commit Voter Fraud?” That the state’s chief crusader against “illegal voting” is now the subject of that question is the point.

Texas law is specific about it. Knowingly giving false information on a voter registration, or voting where you are not eligible, is a crime, the same kind of statute Paxton’s office has used against ordinary voters. Registering and voting from a county where you no longer live can fall within it. Whether Paxton acted knowingly is a question for investigators, but it is the identical question his own office answers “yes” to when the person under scrutiny is not the attorney general.

What You Can Do Now

Use the letter below to ask Texas lawmakers to support an independent review of the attorney general’s voter registration under the same standard his office applies to the public, and to end the selective voter-fraud prosecutions that criminalize good-faith errors by regular voters.
Call your Texas legislators and your county district attorney. Ask a plain question: if an ordinary voter had voted six times from an address they moved out of, would they be investigated? Ask why the answer should be different for the attorney general.
Share the reporting. When someone repeats the “rampant voter fraud” claim, the documented record shows the rare real cases tend to look less like a conspiracy and more like a paperwork mismatch, including, apparently, the state’s own top prosecutor.