AUSTIN, Texas — Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Travis County over a measure to hire a third party to identify potentially unregistered voters.

The Travis County Commissioner’s Court approved a measure at a meeting on Aug. 27 to hire voter outreach service Civil Government Solutions to contact non-registered residents and encourage them to register to vote, according to a report from Spectrum News 1 partner The Texas Tribune.

In a statement released Friday, Paxton said the court did not have statutory authority to hire the third-party organization to conduct voter outreach.

“Travis County has blatantly violated Texas law by paying partisan actors to conduct unlawful identification efforts to track down people who are not registered to vote,” Paxton said. “Programs like this invite fraud and reduce public trust in our elections. We will stop them and any other county considering such programs.”

Travis County spokesperson Hector Nieto issued the following statement on the matter:

“Travis County is committed to encouraging voter participation and we are proud of our outreach efforts that achieve higher voter registration numbers. We remain steadfast in our responsibility to uphold the integrity of the voter registration process while ensuring that every eligible person has the opportunity to exercise their right to vote. It is disappointing that any statewide elected official would prefer to sow distrust and discourage participation in the electoral process.”

The lawsuit comes days after the attorney general sued Bexar County over the approval of a measure to mail voter registration forms to residents.