Associated Press | July 14, 2021 8:48 pm
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Zack Smith with The Heritage Foundation and Aneel Chablani with the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights discuss voting rights on “Chicago Tonight.” (Produced by Blair Paddock)
The Texas voting bills that prompted state Democrats’ flight to Washington this week include a raft of tweaks and changes to the state’s election code. Some are dramatic, others highly technical, and a couple could make life easier for voters.
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But taken as a whole, the changes add up to one clear result: If the proposals pass, it will become harder — and even, sometimes, legally riskier — to cast a ballot in Texas, a state that already has some of the most restrictive election laws in the country.