A former congressional candidate and a local voter have filed a formal federal complaint against the Texas Secretary of State, pointing to massive gaps in the state’s own official voter turnout.
Jeffrey Yuna, a former candidate for the 38th Congressional District from Harris County, and Collin County voter Debra Boehm submitted the paperwork on Thursday to Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson. The complaint uses the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) to demand an official, on-the-record hearing regarding how Texas tracks and keeps its voter registration and history records.
The filing relies heavily on data compiled by the group Unite4Freedom. According to the complaint, Texas has four separate official counts for total voter participation, and none of them match.
For the 2024 general election, the official certified vote count sat at 11,388,674. However, the state’s own voter roll history database showed only 11,101,461 voters. Meanwhile, the aggregate count sent up from individual counties totaled 11,319,614, and the official report Texas submitted to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission claimed 11,488,820 voters.
According to the complaint, that leaves an unexplained gap of 478,359 voters between the highest and lowest official state numbers for the 2024 election. A similar issue happened in the 2022 general election, where the numbers were off by 66,988 voters.
The complainants emphasize they are not trying to overturn or alter any past election results. Instead, they want the state to prove it is following federal law, which requires a single, uniform, and centralized computerized statewide voter list.
The gap in numbers is large enough to shift real political outcomes. For context, the complaint notes that the March 2026 U.S. Senate primary between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton was decided by just 31,818 votes—making the 2024 tracking discrepancy more than 15 times larger than the margin of victory.
The complaint also brings up messy data patterns from the recent 2026 primaries, claiming that daily snapshots of early voting files showed voter records appearing, disappearing, and reappearing with no clear administrative reason.
The legal action asks the state to answer four straightforward questions: Do the four official counts reconcile? Is there a paper trail showing how they reconcile? Can the state identify exactly which number was certified and where it came from? And finally, can the state produce record-chain proof connecting that certified number back to the master voter registration list?
Beyond federal voting laws, the filing cites numerous sections of the Texas Election Code and notes that federal law carries criminal penalties for election officials who willfully fail to preserve records or who allow false vote tabulations.
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