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HOUSTON (AP) — The top elected official in a county in suburban Houston was indicted on Thursday over allegations he created fake and racist social media posts when he ran for re-election in 2022... The indictment alleges that on Sept. 26, 2022, [KP George] posed as a Facebook user named “Antonio Scalywag”... The indictment did not specify the election that was allegedly influenced or the candidate that was injured. But at the time, George, a Democrat, was running for re-election as county judge against Trever Nehls, who is the twin brother of Texas congressman Troy Nehls. ...authorities accused him in...

A former field director for the political advocacy organization ACORN was sentenced today in district court to up to three years of probation. Christopher Edwards, who in August pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime of compensation for registration of voters, a gross misdemeanor, received a suspended jail sentence and a $500 fine. He has agreed to testify against ACORN and one of its former regional directors, Amy Busefink. The Nevada attorney general’s office has accused ACORN and Busefink of operating an illegal bonus system. Tying money to or setting quotas for collecting voter registration cards...

AUSTIN — Alegria Arce Hibbetts of Austin got a letter in late March saying that she might be dead. Or more specifically, the Texas secretary of state’s Texas Election Administration Management system indicated she was a “possible deceased voter.” She had 30 days to prove otherwise, and she wasn’t sure how to do that — the response form allowed only for a family member to sign off on her death. There was nowhere to check “I’m alive,” said Hibbetts, 74, who lives just north of the University of Texas. “I don’t know where they got that information.”