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Former state Rep. Norma Chavez sues over alleged election fraud in race to replace Beto O'Rourke
by Julián Aguilar, Texas TribuneA former El Paso state representative and two other candidates who lost their primary elections for U.S. Congress by a landslide have filed a lawsuit in El Paso County alleging voter fraud.
The lawsuit, first reported by the El Paso Times, was filed by former State Rep. Norma Chávez, who represented El Paso’s central and east sides in the Texas House for seven terms. Candidates John Carrillo and Enrique Garcia are also named as plaintiffs.
The lawsuit alleges that fraud and other mischief was the reason former El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar bested her opponents by such a wide margin. Escobar received 61.4 percent of the vote on March 6; Chavez and Garcia received 6.7 and 5.3 percent, respectively, while Carrillo earned 1.5 percent.
Dori Fenenbock, who was considered Escobar’s closest competitor, is not listed as a party to the lawsuit. Neither is a sixth candidate, Jerome Tilghman. Fenenbock and Tilghman garnered 22 and 3 percent of the vote totals, respectively.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/15/former-state-rep-norma-chavez-and-others-allege-fraud-cd16-primary-ele/
