Talarico’s Voter Registration Raises Questions About Fraud

August 05, 2026 3:07 PM ET Democratic Texas State Rep. and Senate hopeful James Talarico is facing accusations of hypocrisy after reports surfaced that he voted using his parents’ address despite accusing his Republican opponent of voter fraud for allegedly voting from an address that was not his own.Talarico said GOP nominee and Attorney General Ken Paxton was committing voter fraud and was “voting illegally in six elections in a row from the wrong address” after July reports showed he had been using the address of his estranged wife to vote, where he had not lived for two years, The Texas Tribune reported. (RELATED: Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Nomination)But on Wednesday, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported that Talarico voted in the l