Something really, really stinks in Vasquez office. Why is he working so closely with a radical right organization with ties to the Rick Perry campaign and yet stonewalled Houston Votes who were trying to work with his office to make sure their efforts were done correctly?

And I have to wonder if the partisan hacks Vasquez was working with, had access to data they were not entitled to have.

One thing is for sure, the Justice Department needs to come back and continue their investigation. Someone needs to go to jail.

John, thanks as always for commenting here and reading the site. You raise a question that I've heard from others. As far as I know, the data that would be required to compare voter registrations is very much public, in its paper form --- i.e. the application to register to vote --- and in aggregate data. The data can be obtained from local elections officials and from the Secretary of State by you, me, anyone who has an interest in looking at it. I believe you do have to sign something here in Texas that says you won't use the data for a commercial purpose. I know campaigns and their political operatives use such data in Texas and around the country when targeting mail pieces to likely voters.

-- Lee Ann O'Neal, deputy editor, Texas Watchdog

Vasquez seems to be responding to a grassroots check into voter fraud. It's his job to do so. Funny that people want to attack the investigation without addressing the horrendous fraud (and suspicious fire) that the investigation uncovered. Voter registration records are public information, by the way. That allows any citizen with a concern to do just exactly what happened here - challenge heinous fraud and stop the hijacking of our elections.

Of course this goes on in Houston. It also goes on in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, El Paso. I would not be supprised it

these voters were not sold to the highest bidder.

?? DID YOU REALLY THINK YOU GET TO ELECT SOMEONE ??