Texas House passes GOP voting restrictions, which Democrats had blocked for weeks by fleeing the sta

[former9thward]

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Source: Washington Post

AUSTIN -- Defying a months-long Democratic protest, the Texas House on Thursday approved wide-ranging voting restrictions that opponents say will make casting ballots and administering elections harder in the state.

Elections bill SB1 passed 79-37 along party lines after 12 hours of impassioned debate. Democrats -- who broke quorum for weeks, fled Texas and faced the threat of arrest to stave off passage of the measure this summer -- did not have the numbers to overcome the chamber's Republican majority in the final vote.

The House's passage of the measure is a victory for Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and the latest example of Republican state legislators adopting voting restrictions in the wake of the 2020 election. Proponents of the bills argue voting rules should be tightened to prevent voter fraud, echoing baseless claims by former president Donald Trump and his supporters that the last election was tainted by irregularities.

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Washington Post correction: The Thursday night vote moves the bill to final passage on Friday. So the final bill was not voted on yet, it will happen today.

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[cstanleytech]

1. Then Jim Crow b.1875 - d.1965 and now Jim Crow Jr. b.2021 - ????

[SoCalDavidS]

2. For Those Who Think ANY Money Should Be Spent In FL Or TX

Face reality. The funds are better spent elsewhere.

Focus on states where we actually have shown some momentum, like AZ & GA.

There's simply No Way the repubs will let FL or AZ go blue for either the Presidency or Senatorial races.

Save the money because we're going to need it in 2024 when DeSatan wins the nomination. Just don't spend A DIME in FL, because he's got that state locked up already. Even killing an ever increasing # of his constituents isn't going to be enough to turn the state blue.

Val Demings is a great candidate, but FL vote for a black woman ahead of Marco? Not gonna happen. She has 2 strikes against her. She's black, and she's a woman.

[ananda]

3. Huge bummer.

Just so depressing.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Too bad those 3 Dems caved

[vercetti2021]

5. DNC needs to redirect money elsewhere

Texas is screwed for a long time, too many here don't vote and Latino's sadly buy into the GOP bullshit machine too. Texas will be another 20 or even 30 years away from being flippable, that's if climate change doesn't kill us first or the country erupts into another civil war.