Overview
- A joint ProPublica and Texas Tribune report published Tuesday says voter records show Paxton used a Collin County address to vote in six elections over the past two years, including the May runoff that clinched his GOP Senate nomination.
- Public voter rolls show Paxton voted in Collin County in the March Republican primary and again in the May runoff even though his estranged wife said in a 2025 divorce filing that he moved out of the Collin home the year before.
- Reporters linked Paxton to a Denton County house purchased by a trust via property records and on-the-ground details such as an envelope in the mailbox and a photo that matches the home’s interior listing.
- Texas law makes voting from a residence where a person does not live a second-degree felony with heavy penalties, but election lawyers say prosecutors rarely bring such cases because proving where someone truly lives and their intent is legally difficult.
- Paxton’s campaign called the reporting a “baseless, lie-filled tabloid story” without offering detailed factual rebuttals, no criminal charges or formal investigations have been announced, and the allegations add to longstanding questions about his fitness for the Senate race.