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Texas AG Ken Paxton voted in six elections, including 2026 Senate runoff, from address he no longer occupied

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican U.S. Senate nominee, voted in six elections over the past two years — including the March 2026 primary and the May 26, 2026 runoff that secured his nomination — from a Collin County home records indicate he had vacated more than a year earlier. A trust bought Paxton a $2.4 million home in Denton County in February 2026, but he continued voting from the Collin County address rather than updating his registration. Three election-law experts told ProPublica and The Texas Tribune the conduct may violate the same Texas election-fraud statute Paxton's own office has publicly warned voters against.

Jurisdiction
Texas
Location
McKinney, Texas

Abuses documented

Actors

On May 26, 2026, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton voted in the Republican U.S. Senate runoff using a Collin County voter registration address that records indicate he had not lived at for more than a year. The vote was the most recent in a pattern spanning six elections over two years, including the March 3, 2026 primary, all cast from the McKinney home that Paxton's estranged wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, said in a 2025 divorce filing he moved out of after she accused him of adultery. Since February 2026, a trust has owned a $2.4 million home in neighboring Denton County that reporting has linked to Paxton, but he has not updated his voter registration to that address or any other. Voting in an election for which one is not a legally qualified voter is a second-degree felony under Texas law. Paxton's Senate campaign did not answer written questions from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune sent June 3, 15, and 25, 2026, and later called the reporting "baseless" without disputing specific facts.

Updates

2026-07-14 — Collin County Democrats filed complaint seeking Paxton probe [4]

The Collin County Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Texas secretary of state on July 14, 2026, asking that Paxton be investigated for potential election fraud tied to voting from an address he no longer occupied, noting his own office had publicly warned against misrepresenting a residence on election records.

Why we recorded this

Free and fair elections depend on voters casting ballots only where they actually reside, a baseline of electoral integrity that binds everyone, including the official responsible for enforcing it. Records show Texas's chief law-enforcement officer voted in six elections from a home he no longer lived in, including the runoff that made him his party's Senate nominee. When the state's top law-enforcement officer treats election-residency rules as inapplicable to himself, it undermines both the accuracy of election rolls and public confidence that election law applies equally to those charged with enforcing it.

Sources

  1. Ken Paxton's Voter Registration May Violate Texas Election Law, Experts Say — ProPublica primary accessed July 7, 2026
  2. Attorney General Ken Paxton Issues Advisory Cautioning Against Risks of Unsolicited Voter Registration Applications — Office of the Texas Attorney General primary accessed July 7, 2026
  3. Ken Paxton's voter registration may violate Texas election law — The Texas Tribune secondary accessed July 7, 2026
  4. Texas Democrats Ask for Investigation Into Ken Paxton After Our Reporting Found He May Have Violated Election Law — ProPublica primary accessed July 17, 2026

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