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Texas GOP passes bill making it harder for veterans, students and elderly to vote
https://shareblue.com/texas-republicans-pass-bill-making-veterans-vote-harder/Republican lawmakers in Texas passed a bill to end mobile polling sites that help disabled veterans and the elderly vote.
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Even after a harsh bill imposing criminal penalties for mistakes on voter registration forms died in the legislature, Republicans passed two more bills that directly target voting rights, according to the Texas Observer.
One bill effectively eliminates mobile polling sites. The move appears intended to make it harder for voting populations who often support Democratic candidates, such as college students and people with limited access to transportation, to cast ballots.
Critics say the bill will have the consequence of also hurting disabled vets and elderly voters who have a harder time making it to the polls and waiting in long lines.
"This is going to take away their ability to access these polls. … We don't need to have voter suppression laws, especially after serving the country honorably," Charles Mario Henry, a 32-year-old disabled Army veteran, told the Texas Observer. "I'm sure, on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, we can all agree that taking away those rights is not something we want to do as a state."
The second bill is a workaround to an attempt to purge Hispanic voters from the rolls.
. . . Texas Republicans passed a new bill to try and legally purge Hispanic voters from the rolls, adding a requirement that the secretary of state compare voters' registrations against their citizenship status, according to the Texas Tribune.
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Even after a harsh bill imposing criminal penalties for mistakes on voter registration forms died in the legislature, Republicans passed two more bills that directly target voting rights, according to the Texas Observer.
One bill effectively eliminates mobile polling sites. The move appears intended to make it harder for voting populations who often support Democratic candidates, such as college students and people with limited access to transportation, to cast ballots.
Critics say the bill will have the consequence of also hurting disabled vets and elderly voters who have a harder time making it to the polls and waiting in long lines.
"This is going to take away their ability to access these polls. … We don't need to have voter suppression laws, especially after serving the country honorably," Charles Mario Henry, a 32-year-old disabled Army veteran, told the Texas Observer. "I'm sure, on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, we can all agree that taking away those rights is not something we want to do as a state."
The second bill is a workaround to an attempt to purge Hispanic voters from the rolls.
. . . Texas Republicans passed a new bill to try and legally purge Hispanic voters from the rolls, adding a requirement that the secretary of state compare voters' registrations against their citizenship status, according to the Texas Tribune.
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