AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that the Texas 2nd Court of Appeals upheld the 2017 voter fraud conviction of Rosa Maria Ortega. A Tarrant County jury of 10 women and two men found Ortega guilty of voting illegally and sentenced her to eight years in jail. Despite evidence that Ortega had been voting illegally for more than 10 years, the state of Texas offered her the minimum punishment available for the offense – […]
