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Ken Paxton suffers massive new blow as investigation blows lid off dubious fraud crusade

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An investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's six-year crackdown on noncitizen voting found that he produced just one charge from a referral list of 53 suspects. Through a public records request, NBC News obtained 53 names referred to Paxton's office for investigation — and only one, Ada Otuka, was formally charged with noncitizen voting. The NBC News report was published on Monday. Paxton, who is running as a Republican for the U.S Senate, has been silent on his failed prosecutorial crusade against "widespread" voter fraud, something that experts say is wildly overblown. The other two noncitizens prosecuted in Texas since 2020, Eliseo Morales-Tapia and Samuel Hall, were not on the referral list at all, NBC News found. Last summer, Paxton's office announced investigations into more than 100 cases of potential noncitizen voting spanning the 2020, 2022, and 2024 elections. "Illegal aliens and foreign nationals must not be allowed to influence Texas elections by casting illega