Beto O'Rourke says he'll reach out to 2 million Texas voters in February amid voting problems
AUSTIN — Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke announced on Friday a major push to reach 2 million voters in February amid new voting laws he said are efforts by Republicans to suppress votes.
O’Rourke said his campaign will reach out via blockwalking, phone calls, text messages and letter writing to inform voters how to navigate the new election provisions in Senate Bill 1 that so far have led to the rejection of hundreds of mail in ballot applications in North Texas.
“This new law was intended to make it harder to vote, and it looks like it’s working,” O’Rourke said at a news conference outside the Texas AFL-CIO headquarters in Austin.
Some Democrats in Texas, including the O’Rourke campaign, had been holding out hope that Congress would pass legislation strengthening protections for voters. However, when the Senate failed to weaken the filibuster Wednesday and effectively killed those bills, O’Rourke said his campaign shifted gears.
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