The charges come months after the Texas attorney general's office raided the homes of several Latino Democrats in and around San Antonio.

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,

The indictments and applications for search warrants in the case that resulted in charges against six people accused officials of paying a campaign worker who told elderly residents how to vote while assisting them with their ballots.