Citizen watchdogs

Politics | As concern mounts about lapsed Justice Department enforcement of voting rights laws, local groups step up to monitor voting themselves | Emily Belz

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WASHINGTON—Harris County, the third-largest county in the country and the largest in Texas, appears to have fraud-filled voter rolls, but the federal government didn't uncover it: A local group funded by "passing the cowboy hat" did.

Catherine Engelbrecht, now the president of the watchdog group True the Vote, used to run Engelbrecht Manufacturing, a company that cranks out manufacturing parts. But she has set that life aside, perhaps permanently. With no legal background, she and a team she dubbed "Excel spreadsheet pros" spent the last year investigating voter fraud and released a report in August detailing thousands of fraudulent registrations—information that the county voter registrar has now submitted to the district attorney.

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October 23, 2010, Vol. 25, No. 21

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