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True the Vote co-founder Alan Vera dies at Texas Capitol moments before scheduled testimony on election bills
Alan Vera, an influential Republican voter-fraud activist who pushed controversial election bills in Texas, died Thursday at the Texas Capitol as he was preparing to testify on election legislation. He was 75.
Vera, an influential figure in Texas voting policy, helped found Houston-based True the Vote, a conservative nonprofit focused on voter fraud, and had been the Harris County GOP ballot-security chair since 2014. Well-respected among Republican lawmakers, he was frequently called to testify as a witness on election-related legislation.
An Army veteran, who grew up in El Paso, Vera had been active in election integrity issues with the Republican Party for more than a decade.
Although there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud*, Vera told conservative Texas activist and megadonor Steven Hotze in a video last fall that he and his wife, Colleen Vera, became inspired to investigate it after attending a rally in Washington in 2009 organized by conservative TV personality Glenn Beck.
“It’s all God’s work,” Alan Vera said in the video. “We went out as poll watchers throughout Harris County, just to observe what was going on. And the things we saw just made our skin crawl. We saw such blatant fraud, such disregard for integrity or for the laws, and that got us fired up.”
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https://texas.votebeat.org/2023/5/4/23711671/alan-vera-death-true-the-vote-texas-election-bills