Ted Cruz's campaign sends a letter to constituents that looks like a subpoena

The campaign of Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who wants to be re-elected this year, sent a letter to voters this month in envelopes marked "official summons" and "immediate opening".

A picture of the mail was tweeted by a Texas resident who said his grandmother had received the letter. The envelope indicates in the upper left corner that it is "an official summons" by a "Division of the Voter Registration Campaign". The words "Joint Invocation – Open Immediately" are written on the envelope in large print. The only indication that this is not an official legal summons is the mention of "Ted Cruz for Senate 2018" in the upper left corner.

A spokesman for the Federal Election Commission told the New York Times that mailers were not illegal because "the rules of the F.E.C. However, the representative of the Democratic State of Texas, Gene Wu suggested on Twitter that Cruz may have violated Texas criminal law, because "Texas's Criminal Code 32.48 states that you can not send a" subpoena "to mislead someone to take action."

Cruz's campaign said in a statement that "our mail efforts have been both effective and essential in identifying and engaging our supporters and engaging them in our campaigning efforts to maintain Texas strength."

The Texas Republican and Conservative pillar have been criticized for their similar tactics when he went to the presidency in 2016. Cruz's campaign was criticized by the Iowa caucus after the Sending potential participants to caucus a mailer with the official appearance which gave them and their neighbors a note for past voter turnout with the words "VOTING VIOLATION" at the top of the list. He won the Iowa Caucus in 2016 before losing the GOP nomination to President Trump.

Cruz will face Democratic Rep. Beto O. Rourke in the November general election. Many polls indicate that the race is close, despite the Texas Republican inclination.