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Dems Walk, Stop Texas GOP’s Sweeping Voting Restrictions
OZARKFIRST ^ | May 30, 2021 | Paul J Weber

Posted on 05/30/2021 10:18:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A restrictive voting bill in Texas that was on the verge of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk failed to pass Sunday night after Democrats walked out of the House chamber before a midnight deadline.

Abbott swiftly said he would call a special session to try passing a voting bill again but did not say when.“We’ve said for so many years that we want more people to participate in our democracy. And it just seems that’s not the case,” Democratic state Rep. Carl Sherman said.

The bill known as Senate Bill 7 would have imposed a raft of election changes that eliminate drive-thru voting, empower partisan poll watchers and impose new requirements in order to cast a ballot by mail in Texas, which already has some of toughest voting laws in the nation.

(Excerpt) Read more at ozarksfirst.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: assistantdemocrats; carlsherman; election; gregabbott; legislature; texas; vote; votefraud; voterid; voting
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1 posted on 05/30/2021 10:18:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Just a few more migrating Cancerfornia folks to Texas and not only will the Left stop all common sense within and coming out of Texas but will make Texas into the image of Cancerfornia, bet.


2 posted on 05/30/2021 10:20:51 PM PDT by cranked
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Abbotts a dumbass. Should have ordered Texas Rangers to seal the exits until the vote was completed.


3 posted on 05/30/2021 10:25:04 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less)
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To: nickcarraway

One man one vote! Not one man two votes or three votes or four votes or five votes. Not one imaginary man ten votes.


4 posted on 05/30/2021 10:27:39 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: nickcarraway

Typical lazy reporting. Republicans control the House 83-67. Most people think of a quorum as half plus one. What is a quorum in the Texas legislature. Inquiring minds want to know


5 posted on 05/30/2021 10:38:52 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: The MAGA-Deplorian

Damn, I wish we had some leaders with BALLS!


6 posted on 05/30/2021 10:44:38 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: nickcarraway

The difference between the DemocRats and Republican weenies. The Drms will do ANYTHING to promote their crooked agendas while GOPers are afraid of their own shadows.


7 posted on 05/30/2021 10:49:50 PM PDT by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts, Coney-Barrett, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. TRAITORS)
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In order for the Texas House to conduct business, a quorum of two-thirds of the chamber’s members (100 out of 150) are required to be present.


8 posted on 05/30/2021 10:50:56 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: nickcarraway

They want more people to participate in our democracy

Can’t have a democracy nor a republic, without fair elections.


9 posted on 05/30/2021 11:05:15 PM PDT by stanne
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It's NOT one-man-one-vote . . . it's one living, lucid, properly registered American citizen, one vote . . . big difference!
10 posted on 05/30/2021 11:06:33 PM PDT by laweeks (The air is always different to a midget on a crowded elevator.)
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I guess this means that the democrats can always win when it comes to blocking a bill. All they have to do is walk out. What is wrong with that picture?


11 posted on 05/30/2021 11:09:51 PM PDT by Revel
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What you and I call cowardice, the Democrats call ‘democracy’.


12 posted on 05/30/2021 11:24:10 PM PDT by Viking2002 (When's the appeasement party start? I brought enough white guilt for everyone! [/sarc])
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#8. Do a “PELOSI” on the Texas House the next time it is nearly full/full capacity. Lock the doors and don’t let anyone out until the voting is finished.


13 posted on 05/30/2021 11:56:12 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t see anything in the article about any concern being expressed for a citizens right to not have their legitimately cast ballot being cancelled by a fraudulently cast ballot.


14 posted on 05/31/2021 12:00:55 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

Seal the exits? That’s bonehead and would give the Rats sympathy.

Run the process and kick their teeth in. Nice and legal.


15 posted on 05/31/2021 1:08:55 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: vikingd00d

Thanks


16 posted on 05/31/2021 1:45:10 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: nickcarraway

We’ve said for so many years that we want more people to participate in our democracy, more dead, more illegals, more non American citizens. They fool no one


17 posted on 05/31/2021 2:09:32 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: nickcarraway

Those are not “restrictions”, that is vote “integrity”.


18 posted on 05/31/2021 2:20:48 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: nickcarraway

Such spoiled children......BAD SEEDS!


19 posted on 05/31/2021 3:12:39 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ZULU

Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!


20 posted on 05/31/2021 3:13:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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