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The Secretary of State has initiated an investigation after Senator Paul Bettencourt filed a complaint claiming that Harris County allowed voters to register their home addresses to post office boxes in violation of bills he authored in 2023.

In a November letter to Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Annette Ramirez, Bettencourt asserted that Harris County failed to remove voters from the county’s rolls who had registered their addresses to local United Parcel Service stores, also known as P.O. boxes. The alleged oversight, he wrote, could put the county in violation of state laws that aim to boost election integrity.

The complaint mentions two UPS locations on Westheimer Road and Waugh Drive that found more than 120 registered voters registered to those P.O. boxes.

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