Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has deployed "an Election Day Rapid Response Legal Team" in major counties across the Lone Star State.
According to a press release from the attorney general's office, the legal team will be deployed to monitor "day-of election" activities, "address litigation arising from the election," and additionally, the legal team will be equipped to address "ballot shortages, extended polling location closures, and improper extension of voting hours."
"There is no issue more important and more fundamental to our nation than election integrity," Paxton said. "Our Election Day Rapid Response Legal Team will be on the frontline on November 5th. We will defend the ballot box from any bad actors seeking to unduly influence or illegally undermine Texas elections."
Paxton's call for a legal team to monitor Election Day voting in Texas comes amid a fight between himself and the federal government, which sought to send its own monitors to "enforce federal voting rights laws" in the southern border state. However, Secretary of State Jane Nelson argued that any involvement from the federal government was against Texas state law.
"Justice Department monitors are not permitted inside a polling place where ballots are being cast or a central counting station where ballots are being counted," Nelson wrote, according to The Hill.