Dallas County district attorney hopeful Elizabeth Frizell has filed a lawsuit alleging that voter fraud cost her the win and arguing that the Democratic primary should be declared void, which would trigger a special election.

Frizell filed the civil suit Monday in Dallas County against primary opponent John Creuzot in the Democratic primary, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson, the elections administrator and the Dallas County Democratic Party chair.

Elizabeth Davis Frizell

The suit says that "ineligible, illegal and fraudulent mail-in ballots were included in the vote total" in the March 6 primary election.

Frizell lost by 589 votes to Creuzot, a former state district judge.

Creuzot was ahead in the race by more than 2,000 votes after early ballots were tallied, but his win narrowed as election day votes were counted.

The Dallas County DA's office is investigating whether someone committed fraud in the handling of more than 1,200 mail-in ballot applications from West Dallas, Grand Prairie and parts of Oak Cliff.

Those applications generated 459 ballots that were reviewed by a county board that looks at provisional and questionable ballots.

Frizell said that she wants to review those ballots.

Voter fraud was alleged in last year's municipal elections, but unlike then, no voter has notified the DA's office or elections department about mail-in ballot abuse.

Frizell alleges in the lawsuit that the election tally was not accurate because of "ballots being rejected that should have counted for [Frizell] and ballots being accepted for [Creuzot] that should have been rejected."

She also alleges that the ballots were "illegally harvested" by Creuzot's campaign workers.

Frizell originally said she would seek a recount but then opted not to last week. It was an expense she would've had to cover.

Instead, she said she was going to work to ensure the voting system is fair.

"I have a responsibility to the voters to ensure the process that I campaigned for them to participate in, many for the first time ever, was fair and impartial," she said in a prepared statement released last week.

In the lawsuit, Frizell asks that she be allowed to review the ballot boxes and that the election be declared void.