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  • Report: elderly and Texans of color impacted by repeal of straight-ticket voting

    08/29/2019 5:32:54 PM PDT · by bgill · 45 replies
    kxan ^ | Aug. 29, 2019 | Phil Prazan
    A new report out of Austin Community College Thursday predicts 16 to 17% of Texas voters in November 2020 will not fill out their entire ballot. It’s a side effect of 2017’s House Bill 25 which repealed straight-ticket voting in the state. The measure used to automatically select all members of a certain political party on a given ballot. This will impact older people and people of color the most, according to the report. The analysis came out of ACC’s Center for Public Policy and Political Studies. Peck Young heads the center and says voters will just get tired around...