Hays County is being sued alongside Dallas, Harris and Hopkins counties in an attempt to stop the counties from using election grant funding from the Center for Tech and Civic Life; similar lawsuits were filed in at least seven other states.
The Texas Voters Alliance, Donnie Wisenbaker, Alan Vera, Warren Johnson and former Chairman of the Hays County Republican Party Russell Hayter requested a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction that would prevent the counties from using the $25 million to “create disparate outcomes from the counties and municipalities not receiving these grants,” according to their application for the order.
District Judge Amos Mazzant denied the group’s request for a temporary restraining order Tuesday saying the group will not be injured if more people vote because of the private election funding. “That is not a harm. That is democracy,” he said.
