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GOP bills to tighten voting laws progress in Texas Legislature
KXAN News ^ | 04/01/2021 | Billy Gates, Wes Rapaport, John Engel

Posted on 04/01/2021 8:13:43 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Hours after the Texas Senate passed a sweeping election restriction bill, a Texas House panel considered another Republican effort to further tighten voting rules in the state.
The Texas House Elections Committee held a public hearing on House Bill 6 on Thursday. A hearing on the bill was initially scheduled last week but was abruptly canceled after a procedural error.
The bill would provide additional protections to poll watchers — limiting an election judge’s ability to expel them from a polling location — and prohibit government officials from sending unsolicited mail-in ballot applications to voters. People assisting disabled voters with their ballot would have to provide identification and a reason for helping the voter if the proposal is approved.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: elections; texas
Leftist lawsuits on the way...
1 posted on 04/01/2021 8:13:43 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Maybe not.

If nothing’s done about the software issues, I could see them letting this one slide.

All of that can pass and elections can still be rigged.


2 posted on 04/01/2021 8:15:15 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Chode; DoughtyOne

ping for reducing election skulduggery


3 posted on 04/01/2021 8:15:20 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: mewzilla

Texas rejected Dominion. I guarantee they will keep trying to cheat though.


4 posted on 04/01/2021 8:17:22 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Every Republican legislature should be riding to the rescue of Georgia. That means you, too, Kentucky. Pass it, then override the governor’s veto. They can’t get us all if we rush them


5 posted on 04/01/2021 9:20:50 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Leftist federal judge in less than a month will overturn it.


6 posted on 04/01/2021 10:08:16 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: mewzilla

there will NOT be ANY more “elections”. THAT IS OVER! The only things that will proceed from thus hence are farces disguised as elections.


7 posted on 04/01/2021 10:12:36 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

“Leftist lawsuits on the way... “

Hopefully Governor Abbott doesn’t ring up Kristi Noem for advice...


8 posted on 04/02/2021 3:35:26 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

I doubt Abbot would veto the bill. He already has to explain why Texas was not prepared for the recent energy failures during the freeze.


9 posted on 04/02/2021 8:47:48 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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