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New affi­davits filed with the Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) Mon­day allege a coor­di­nat­ed bal­lot har­vest­ing oper­a­tion in Har­ris County.

The two tes­ti­mo­ni­als specif­i­cal­ly name state Sen­a­tor Boris Miles (D‑Houston) and Har­ris Coun­ty Com­mis­sion­er Rod­ney Ellis (D‑Pct. 1) as lead­ers of an elec­tion fraud scheme that involves steal­ing absen­tee bal­lots from nurs­ing homes and forg­ing vot­er signatures.

Anoth­er indi­vid­ual named is Dal­las Jones, a polit­i­cal oper­a­tive over­see­ing Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Joe Biden’s Har­ris Coun­ty operation.

First report­ed by Nation­al File, the wit­ness tes­ti­mo­ny includ­ed in the affi­davits were sub­mit­ted in con­junc­tion with a law­suit filed by con­ser­v­a­tive activist Steven Hotze and others.

A for­mer FBI agent and now pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tor writes in his sworn tes­ti­mo­ny that he has inves­ti­gat­ed bal­lot har­vest­ing alle­ga­tions since Decem­ber of 2019 after two indi­vid­u­als told him they had wit­nessed ille­gal bal­lot har­vest­ing activity.

The inves­ti­ga­tor says that wit­ness­es have accused Miles and Ellis of orches­trat­ing the scheme, and allege that the two are assist­ed by Hous­ton busi­ness­man Ger­ald Wom­ack and polit­i­cal con­sul­tant Dal­las Jones, who they describe as “chief lieutenants.”

Dal­las Jones pre­vi­ous­ly served as dis­trict direc­tor for both state Rep. Gar­net Cole­man (D‑Houston) and then state Sen­a­tor Rod­ney Ellis, but was recent­ly named the Texas polit­i­cal direc­tor for the Biden-Har­ris pres­i­den­tial campaign.

Accord­ing to the tes­ti­mo­ny, bal­lot har­vesters col­lect absen­tee bal­lots from “the elder­ly in nurs­ing homes, from the home­less, and from unsus­pect­ing res­i­dences’ mail­box­es.” They then com­plete the bal­lots and forge the sig­na­ture of the voter.

Wit­ness­es also told the inves­ti­ga­tor that two employ­ees in the Har­ris Coun­ty Clerk’s office are facil­i­tat­ing the oper­a­tion and work­ing to mix the forged bal­lots in with legal­ly sub­mit­ted ballots.

The affi­davit also alleges that pre­vi­ous coun­ty Clerk Diane Traut­man, who abrupt­ly resigned in May, was aware of the ille­gal activ­i­ties and inves­ti­ga­tion and told Ellis she was con­cerned about being arrest­ed for elec­tion fraud.

The oth­er tes­ti­mo­ny, deliv­ered by a for­mer Hous­ton police offi­cer, asserts explic­it­ly that he has video­taped cor­rob­o­ra­tion of these claims.

Mail-in bal­lots have become a flash­point issue as offi­cials have issued orders that would enable vot­ers to avoid vis­it­ing precincts in per­son. Oppo­nents, includ­ing Texas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton, warn that vot­er fraud will com­pound along with a mail-in vot­ing expansion.

View the affi­davits below.