At a meeting this week, a Tarrant County commissioner raised the question about the use of grant money for absentee ballot applications.
The attorney general is asking the Texas Supreme Court to address the application of the "disability and sickness" provision in state code dictating absentee ballots.
A two-year investigation uncovered an alleged ballot harvesting scheme in which people with prior forgery convictions picked up batches of mail-in ballots and a number of voted ballots were marked identically.
A resolution passed by Dallas County advocates for citizens to apply for a mail-in ballot if fearful of voting in person due to coronavirus concerns.
An advisory from Attorney General Ken Paxton says only those who have contracted coronavirus would be eligible to use mail-in ballots.
