He was probably bullshitting, I'm sure the FBI would be looking into it he stopped 2.5 million people from voting, maybe not mailing them in, but they probably voted in person, 2.5 million disenfranchised would have noticed!
Quick rundown:
Once RECEIVED, Mail-in ballots are held separate & secure until AFTER polls close, in some cases, may hold them until after regular tabulation, then run (count) them. To stop the ballots GOING OUT *TO* voters would be time- & labor-intensive, prone to error (trying to exclude ballots to residents of Harris Co. zip codes would be both obvious and futile, for ex). From Paxton’s remarks, and having some familiarity w/ procedures, he could only act as he claims if he had the *returned* ballots secure & under his control; with no one meaningful to answer to, he might have gotten away with it.
Paxton’s chain of reasoning (as I envision it):
- 2 and a half MILLION uncounted mail-ins from the BLACKEST COUNTY IN TEXAS
- possible BIDEN win by 500k or more
- aw' HELL no - THAT ain’t-a gonna happen
- get those out of here!
- YES, all of them
Now that he’s in real trouble, he wants to win support by bragging about the lengths he went to for Feckless Fuckhead…for grift to beat / evade all the impeachment charges.
Still: stupid IS in fact what stupid does.