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Abbott Signs Texas Election Law, Ending a Fierce Voting Rights Battle
The Seattle Times ^ | 9/8/2021 | Nick Corasaniti/NYT

Posted on 09/07/2021 9:47:56 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas on Tuesday signed a sweeping bill overhauling the state’s elections, capping a dramatic, monthslong national saga over voting rights with a new Republican-led law that will sharply restrict voting across the nation’s second-biggest state.

Appearing in deeply red Tyler in East Texas, Abbott proclaimed the law a “paradigm” for other states looking to pass election bills. He declared that it would be “harder to cheat at the ballot box” and claimed that the law would “make it easier than ever before for anybody to go cast a ballot,” referring, in part, to provisions that add an extra hour to early voting on weekdays.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: elections; gregabbott; texas; voting

1 posted on 09/07/2021 9:47:56 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Dems acted like children.


2 posted on 09/07/2021 9:49:20 PM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: lurk

Why insult children? /s


3 posted on 09/07/2021 9:50:50 PM PDT by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Abbott Signs Texas Election Law, Ending a Fierce Voting Rights Election Fraud Battle
4 posted on 09/07/2021 9:50:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

“...new Republican-led law that will sharply restrict voting across the nation’s second-biggest state.”

Uh, no, just illegal voting.


5 posted on 09/07/2021 9:51:01 PM PDT by decal (MOLON JABE)
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To: decal

Ballot initiative process should be stopped in all states as well. They just override legislatures’ bicameral protections of less populated regions against the whims of deeeegenerate cities.


6 posted on 09/07/2021 10:02:31 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Did this bill completely and totally prohibit Mail In Voting and Drop Boxes?

If not, it does relatively nothing.

Next year, since Fauci, et al seem to be running through the alphabet there will be the Tango, Uniform, or Victor variant of covid. Possibly even the X-Ray, Yankee or Zulu variant. By then, it will be so deadly that people won’t be able to leave their homes because seeing a stranger in the grocery store will be lethal.

So, of course, Mail In Voting for all.


7 posted on 09/07/2021 10:07:42 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: lurk

Children? Nah, they act more like assholes. Nothing gets their panties in a twist when it comes to abortion, which Abbott also signed to save the unborn.


8 posted on 09/07/2021 10:38:24 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

If America’s press wasn’t so fundamentally corrupt and stupid, the headline would be “voting rights” or “vote protection” bill.


9 posted on 09/07/2021 10:58:11 PM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The majority of Texans actually support the bill. It is all of the Commie Dem A-holes from Commifornia or New USSRYork along with the rest of the Dems who moved here from blue states that are pissed.
The law makes it so that local officials can’t break election law with impunity and makes it so that ballot counters can’t cheat as poll watchers can’t be kicked out of ballot counting centers.


10 posted on 09/08/2021 12:18:35 AM PDT by jhastey
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Good start but tighten it up far more and in far more states.


11 posted on 09/08/2021 4:03:25 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: No_Mas_Obama
If America’s press wasn’t so fundamentally corrupt and stupid, the headline would be “voting rights” or “vote protection” bill.

Yeah, it was a challenge to find a less ridiculous article and headline, even from sources that should have known better. Just went with this one rather than keep searching.

Our country is in bad need of revival on so many fronts, quality news reporting being one glaring example.

12 posted on 09/08/2021 7:12:17 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: lurk

“ Dems acted like children.”

They weren’t acting.

L


13 posted on 09/08/2021 7:14:15 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Ending the battle? For dems, the battle is never over until they win in the courts.


14 posted on 09/08/2021 7:14:19 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: nevergore

Indeed they have a higher IQ.


15 posted on 09/08/2021 8:58:48 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Should be interesting to see how this affects the south Texas counties….they have routinely cheated in elections for decades.


16 posted on 09/08/2021 9:02:49 AM PDT by Hogblog
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Voting is not hard


17 posted on 09/08/2021 9:09:22 AM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Partisan Media Shill alert.

18 posted on 09/09/2021 8:32:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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