We have a guy here in Houston who goes by the name of Steven Hotze, because the name Satan T. Devil was already taken.

Hotze

Hotze is a rightwing activist and bears more than just a little responsibility for the increase in marketing for tin foil hats. Hotze is also famous for being armpit deep in anti-homosexual hubbub.

Hotze got it in his head that there was all manner of illegal voting scams going on in Houston. The problem was, he had no proof. So he hires a former Houston Police Department Captain to “investigate” all these rumors he’s hearing.  The investigator’s name is Mark Aguirre.

Then the damnedest thing happened.

Mark Aguirre is accused of running a man off the road and threatening him at gunpoint. The ex-cop was hired as a private investigator by a group whose CEO is GOP activist Steven Hotze.

Mark Aguirre put a surveillance team on the air conditioner repairman (and we’re not going to use his name because … we’ll get to that) for four damn days, watching him 24 hours a day.  Then, finally, he pulls the guy over and points a gun at him.

.[Aguirre] believed the technician was behind a huge voter fraud scheme in the Houston area. Aguirre told police that he believed the technician to be transporting fake ballots in his vehicle and to have as many as 750,000 in his possession.

I think we might have noticed an extra 750,000 ballots arriving on election night.

“There were no ballots in the truck,” according to a Harris County district attorney’s office press release. “It was filled with air conditioning parts and tools.”