The McAllen Monitor, which covers South Texas, is reporting on yet another voter fraud conviction in Texas. In this latest case, Starr County Commissioner Raul “Roy” Peña Jr. was sentenced to six months’ probation and a $500 fine for fraud committed during this year's Democratic primary.

From The Monitor:

Investigators first began targeting Peña, who was not up for re-election during this spring’s race, on Feb. 26, after he arrived at a Rio Grande City post office with 56 mail-in ballots.

Because state law requires anyone who provides assistance to a voter — including delivery of mail-in votes — to sign the outside of the ballot’s carrier envelope, postal workers found his activity that day suspicious and reported it to authorities.

Within days, losing candidates across the county’s slate of races pointed to the incident as evidence that the vote was rigged.

Be sure to read the whole story.

Texas Watchdog has been spending much of this year digging into voter fraud and examining loopholes in Texas' voting laws. Check out just some of those stories at the links below:

Voter fraud persists in South Texas as enforcement efforts fail

Charged with illegal vote harvesting, a political worker explains how voter fraud works

First-hand stories from South Texas' struggle to curb pervasive voter fraud

For more information about Texas Watchdog's work on voter fraud or to provide tips about voter fraud that we should investigate, contact us at news@texaswatchdog.org or use the contact information below.

Trent Seibert can be reached at 832-316-4994 or at trent@texaswatchdog.org.

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