Posted on 03/24/2022 3:55:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday filed a third lawsuit over voting rights in Texas, keeping America’s biggest red state at the center of a fight over new and in many cases more restrictive election laws passed last year by Republicans.
The newest challenge by the Justice Department, which seeks to undo newly drawn county precincts in the tourist hub of Galveston, is the first under Biden to take aim at local voting changes in Texas. But the claims — that Black and Hispanic voters will be disenfranchised — are the same.
Galveston County, which includes the popular island, is divided into four precincts, only one of which had a majority of Black and Hispanic residents. New maps approved by the county’s governing board last year made white voters the majority in all precincts.
The county is heavily Republican; former President Donald Trump carried it with 60% of the vote in 2020.
“The impact of the adopted plan will be to dilute minority voting strength in Galveston County by eliminating the equal opportunity to elect candidates of choice that minority voters previously enjoyed,” the Justice Department argues in the suit.
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Dems , you can’t stop us from cheating ,D’oh
w/o texas and florida republicans can’t win national elections.
democrats know this. the lack of border control proves it.
the move of hispanics to the right might get democrats to finish the wall though.
It’s time for the dems to put up or shut up. Your moron in the White House got 81 MILLION VOTES and you’re whining about YOUR voters being denied the opportunity to vote. Knock off the drugs. You people are already insane enough. Where is your evidence about your retarded schmucks not getting a chance to vote? Show us!!!
This administration has to be stopped.
3rd Badge of Honor - Paxton is doing a great job
Riiight, 100% voter registration in some precincts isn’t enough for them. They need 10,000%.
“...restrictive election laws.... “
AP?
No bias there....
the dems haul out the dead horse every election.
Someone should investigate how many redistricting lawsuits the DOJ has filed against Democrat states or others.
Since the DOJ is supposed to be a nonpolitical bureaucracy (yes we all know it is not) the number should be close to even. I would be surprised if even one has been filed.
The county I live in doesn’t have many blacks, but is heavily Hispanic of which a lot vote Republican. We went 71.58% for Trump.
Plenty of those when the ballot box is stuffed with fraud.
Judge shopping.
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