A Texas candidate for state railroad commissioner sparked fury online after fundraising for her campaign as a Democrat — then filing to run as a Republican.Katherine Culbert, a process safety engineer who has worked on oil and gas projects, would be co-running the agency that regulates energy across...

100% illegal, but expect more of this shit because the DOJ won’t prosecute, and in this case, Texas certainly won’t.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      Jail time and civil penalties are available through suing, though the jail time would require a government entity to prosecute which clearly won’t happen in Texas or at the Federal level…right now. Nothing stopping this from happening in the future, and it can’t be pardoned away, though.