Lidia Martinez, a retired educator who lives in San Antonio, was shocked last week when officers came to her house at 6 a.m. and informed her that they were searching her residence because she had filed a complaint about residents in her area getting their mail-in ballots.
Martinez says she’s spent decades volunteering with the League of United Latin American Citizens to help seniors in the Latino community register themselves to vote.
The officers at her house asked to see the voter registration cards that she had collected. After informing them that she didn’t have them at her house, they proceeded to search the property and left with her laptop, her phone and some documents.
Texas Attorney General defended the raid as part of an election integrity investigation.
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They also didn’t let her get dressed. Fucking scumbags.
LIDIA MARTINEZ: They questioned me for three hours. And at one point, they had me outside in front of all my neighbors while they searched the living room. And they never let me get dressed. And it was just very embarrassing, intimidating, harassment. They searched everything in my house. - Source
Texas AG raids homes of Latino civil rights group members, setting up a voting rights showdown -(Archived)
The raids have triggered outrage and cries of voter suppression in a state with a long history of discrimination against citizens of Mexican descent, which helped give rise to LULAC.
Fucking fascists.
Get her! That piece of shit deserves the full force of the fascist death machine.
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