The Texas republican legislature is good at "debating" impactful bills then passing them in the shadow of darkness...
According to his follow up tweets… “Bans drive-thru voting and voting after 9PM (used disproportionately by voters of color in Harris County) Bans voting on Sundays before 1PM (Souls to the polls)” @Os Trigonum do you feel this is voter suppression?
Props to Texas Democrats for outwitting the GOP authoritarians https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...T2hDED9qbyBm4Rpsa9NE2YJsJbOOujNZtR4--mc7vGxfQ
These laws have more than just us keyboard warriors concerned (full list of signees at the link) https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/
No joke but I believe the Senate leadership's argument was poll workers have the right to go to church too so voting should be delayed until after church is finished.
If that's documented somewhere, some fringe religious group should claim Tuesday as their day of worship and argue the bill discriminates against their religion by only giving Christians time off.
The AP has the GOP leadership quoted. What's even crazier is that a Texas GOP rep claims that the 1PM early voting rule was actually a typo and was supposed to be "11 AM." They mentioned it on an interview with NPR. I dont believe that for a second but it tells you how absurd the GOP is.
I don't like the bill. And the motivation looks corrupt. But the doomsaying also seems overwrought to me. I'm guessing it'll be incrementally harder for some on the margins to vote, and it'll be incrementally harder for democrats to win. But it's 90% an effort to create suspicion of democrats on one hand and of republicans on the other.
me no likey seems ripe for abuse . If you think you are gonna lose a close election and you are the party in power ... boom , get some illegal votes cast and then the election becomes null Same strategy if you are minority and not in power . This seems like it makes it easier to not govern and instead play footsie all day long we already have problems holding politicians accountable and having effective governance.
This is so disgusting. Seriously you want to limit voting on Sunday on the off chance a poll worker might want to attend church? They can take another shift if church is that important. Federal government needs to make a standard. How about voting is available 24 hours for a certain amount of days? That will do away with the lines and the church, after work, etc arguments. Wish we had online voting. The GOP would never win another election.
Woohoo, I wonder if we get another semicolon court ruling. And then the losing party storms the capitol, and stays! Any Texas historians in here? I actually think a skilled historian and attorney could successfully appeal this law as unconstitutional at a state level - a violation of the Texas Constitution. And since Texas appellate law is a complicated minefield of phuckery, a skilled orator/historian/litigator could win imo. Those judicial conservatives ruling against gaining the power to determine elections due to the way the law is poorly written - I actually could see that happening. And I generally have a decent sense of these things. Totally saw Texas remaining solidly red (yes, that was an easier prediction).
I think you don’t have to go too far out to the fringes. Jewish holy day is fri evening through sat. Islamic holy day is Friday.
