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continue<BR>election abuse</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P>Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Leo Vasquez has acknowledged
turning over expensive and possibly sensitive voter data to
Republican extremists. This follows a history of Leo Vasquez and
Harris County Republicans conspiring to use county resources and
private data to promote an extreme right wing agenda.</P>
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<P><FONT color=#953734><STRONG><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 22px">Vasquez and GOP conspire to suppress
voters</FONT></STRONG></FONT><BR>Harris County Tax
Assessor-Collector Leo Vasquez has turned over thousands of
voter records to a right-wing Tea Party group named King
Street Patriots that operates through a shell organization
called "True the Vote." These voter records often contain
social security and/or driver’s license numbers as well as
addresses and dates of birth. Because this data can be used to
steal a person’s identity, Vasquez’s office has claimed that
redacting the data would cost as much as <A title=http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2+6UBSinc/CPYaKf+m72ESd8lqwknwh25GYCHOSVg3gzOSnbq9Cix+Ogavxj3NwiM8gD58Unn/IHfIm7176RYVHoueB/oFX4W3gb7x7R7XzRZHHd4rB27H28ZiG308WSKqBQWCSDoVgH0UB6ORf8s+n9au href="http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2%2b6UBSinc%2fCPYaKf%2bm72ESd8lqwknwh25GYCHOSVg3gzOSnbq9Cix%2bOgavxj3NwiM8gD58Unn%2fIHfIm7176RYVHoueB%2foFX4W3gb7x7R7XzRZHHd4rB27H28ZiG308WSKqBQWCSDoVgH0UB6ORf8s%2bn9au">$1.5
million.</A></P>
<P>Reporters asked Vasquez to explain why providing voter
information to a partisan organization was not improper. <A title=http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2+6UBSinc/CPYaKf+m72ESd8lqwknwh25GYCHOSVg3gzOSnbq9Cix+Ogavxj3NwiM8gD58Unn/IHfIm7176RYVHoueB/oFX4W3gb7x7R7XzRZHHd4rB27H28ZiG308WSKqBQWCSDoVgH0UB6ORf8s+n9au href="http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2%2b6UBSinc%2fCPYaKf%2bm72ESd8lqwknwh25GYCHOSVg3gzOSnbq9Cix%2bOgavxj3NwiM8gD58Unn%2fIHfIm7176RYVHoueB%2foFX4W3gb7x7R7XzRZHHd4rB27H28ZiG308WSKqBQWCSDoVgH0UB6ORf8s%2bn9au">The
<EM>Houston Chronicle</EM> reported</A> his response as
"Vasquez countered that True the Vote acquired information
through an open records request …The group examined voter
records at addresses where six or more people are registered
to vote."</P>
<P><FONT color=#953734><STRONG><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 22px">Was the actual value of the data
charged and paid?</FONT></STRONG></FONT><BR>According to court
records filed in litigation just last year, the cost of the
type of data provided to "True the Vote" should have cost at
least $142,000 based on pricing that Vasquez’s office provided
Democrats last year.</P>
<P>Leo Vasquez must <STRONG>immediately </STRONG>confirm
through receipts that he has received at least $142,000 from
King Street Patriots/True the Vote as payment for the data, or
admit to illegally giving away private county information.
Vasquez must also produce copies of the voter data given to
the King Street Patriots in order to determine whether voter
social security numbers were illegally
disclosed.<BR><BR></P></TD></TR>
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<P align=center><STRONG><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 24px">Another
Bohac-style scam</FONT></STRONG></P>
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Associate Voter Registrar Ed Johnson was a paid employee of a
GOP political consulting firm, Campaign Data Systems (CDS),
owned by Republican State Representative Dwayne Bohac. On <A title=http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2+6UBSinc/CPYaKTmKmy5sPvhLkPVJR2z+Y4GugEjD42XjadoqfA9q11T+Y3jS7iGLjv+PzTg6KMpW0MUZ4PAYmom2LHJyvCsv8YMdYg63XInkiRiLXHj1e8aw3OefGZFQexstJmv7tmG3iQ== href="http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2%2b6UBSinc%2fCPYaKTmKmy5sPvhLkPVJR2z%2bY4GugEjD42XjadoqfA9q11T%2bY3jS7iGLjv%2bPzTg6KMpW0MUZ4PAYmom2LHJyvCsv8YMdYg63XInkiRiLXHj1e8aw3OefGZFQexstJmv7tmG3iQ%3d%3d">the
firm’s website</A> Bohac boasted that the CDS voter data file
is enhanced by information culled from "driver license"
records.</P>
<P>Harris County’s tax office has also obtained the data. The
contact name provided to obtain the data is Ed Johnson,
Bohac’s business partner <STRONG>AND </STRONG>the Harris
County Associate Voter Registrar. How did CDS get the drivers
license records? It appears that Bohac obtained the records
improperly by way of his "<A title=http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2+6UBSinc/CPYaKXl3PCk5JLVkdSXdAcKBAHBRySTfSl3SEUKl6Pugjg/qsb4aMa9hRhApScxOiO0iwXfXcXEhmbvuNo5nUZOln+44COQoOjtTfGNhtFL//1GqWStPlsuHRcE= href="http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2%2b6UBSinc%2fCPYaKXl3PCk5JLVkdSXdAcKBAHBRySTfSl3SEUKl6Pugjg%2fqsb4aMa9hRhApScxOiO0iwXfXcXEhmbvuNo5nUZOln%2b44COQoOjtTfGNhtFL%2f%2f1GqWStPlsuHRcE%3d">man
on the inside,</A>" Ed Johnson.</P>
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clients that took advantage of data provided by this likely
illegal scheme include</A>:</P>
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<LI>Harris County DA Patricia Lykos
<LI>State Representative Ken Legler
<LI>State Senator Dan Patrick
<LI>Former Rep. Jim Murphy
<LI>Conservative Republicans of Harris County PAC
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