A county judge and several other local officials in South Texas were indicted in connection with an alleged “vote harvesting scheme,” according to the state attorney general’s office. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a news release Wednesday that the indictments followed a yearslong election integrity investigation,

The Frio County judge and several other former and current elected officials have been indicted and most of them arrested for alleged vote harvesting, the latest development in a multi-year investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Republican AG Ken Paxton has led an effort to probe alleged voter fraud. Latino leaders and others have criticized his investigation as politically motivated.