The Frio County judge and several other former and current elected officials have been indicted and most of them arrested for alleged vote harvesting, the latest development in a multi-year investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

A county judge and several other local officials in South Texas were indicted in connection with an alleged “vote harvesting scheme,” according to the state attorney general’s office. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a news release Wednesday that the indictments followed a yearslong election integrity investigation,

Attorney General Ken Paxton indicted and arrested six people – including five public officials – for what his office described as a “vote harvesting scheme” in Frio County, a part of his yearslong election integrity investigation, his office announced Wednesday.