Posted on 07/13/2021 8:53:18 PM PDT by bitt
The Texas state Senate approved a sweeping election reform bill Tuesday night, one day after dozens of House Democrats fled the state to prevent the chamber from taking up the legislation.
The state Senate approved the bill on an 18-4 party-line vote. Nine Senate Democrats had joined 51 of their House colleagues in hightailing it to Washington, DC, though this was not enough to deny the upper chamber a quorum.
However, the legislation is now stalled due to the absence of a quorum in the House.
Republicans say the measures in the bill — which include ending drive-thru and 24-hour polling places, banning ballot drop boxes, and empowering partisan poll watchers — are designed to ensure the integrity of the vote by preventing voter fraud. Democrats say they make it harder for poor people and minorities to cast ballots.
Most of the Democratic legislators flew to Washington on two chartered planes Monday, defying threats by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to have them arrested and forced into the legislative chamber for this month’s special session. Abbott has vowed to continue to call special sessions until next year’s elections, if necessary, until the election reform bill is passed.
Earlier Tuesday, the Texas House voted 76-4 to direct its Sergeant-at-Arms to send for all absentee members by “warrant of arrest if necessary.” After the vote, the chamber doors were locked. Four House Democrats who did not go to Washington were among the lawmakers still inside, while the voting mechanisms on the desks of those absent were locked.
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Fixed it.
That’s the way to do it! And demshevik criminals don’t have to vote, just be present in the room. I hope they’re caught and brought back right away. I read something about who chartered and paid for the planes. Do you remember?
Thank you for fixing that Jane! Democrats opposition to this voting reform is that it does indeed make it much harder for them to cheat!
A majority (forgot the percentage) of Black Americans want voter I.D. laws! But white racist liberals always know what’s best for Blacks and other minorities!
The Communist Party is being exposed for the crooks they are.
Fake news. Texas is not “ending” anything. “Drive-thru voting”, “24-hour polling places” and “ballot drop boxes” were illegally implemented thanks to Democrats exploiting the China virus.
Leaving the state for the sole purpose of making it so the legislature can not function should be taken as a resignation and the legislatures should be replaced.
Abbot needs to get very wiley here.
Just say nothing further, go about business as usual, and when the skanks have all returned from their self imposed exile behind the 12 foot concertina wired fences at the Capitol, clap them in irons.
Let them rot is remand cells for a few days to make conservatives out of them.
I hope they’re caught and brought back right away’
Supposedly they’re planning on staying 26 days
Why?
Because it helps white liberal 'elites' stay in power...
AND
It can be blamed on blacks...
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