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The Texas state Capitol in Austin, on Thursday, May 27, 2021. Texas Democrats staged a last-minute walkout Saturday, May 29, 2021, to kill an elections bill that would have restricted voting statewide.MATTHEW BUSCH, STR / NYTShow MoreShow Less
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Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, left, shakes hands with State Rep. Ron Reynolds, D - Missouri City, after they spoke at a news conference against Senate Bill 7, known as the Election Integrity Protection Act, at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Sunday May 30, 2021.Jay Janner, MBR / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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State Rep. Nicole Collier, D- Fort Worth, the chair of the Legislative Black Caucus, speaks at a news conference at the Capitol on Sunday May 30, 2021, against Senate Bill 7, known as the Election Integrity Protection Act.Jay Janner, MBR / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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Democrats’ 2020 defeats haunt them in voting rights fight
The party s losing fights against new voting laws in battleground states stem from failure to flip new state legislative chambers in the election.
GOP Gov. Greg Abbott called “election integrity” a “must-pass emergency” item in a statement. | Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images
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Democrats hoped to spend 2021 aggressively expanding voting access. Instead, they are scrapping to put up a fight due to an enduring problem: their failure to flip any state legislative chambers in the 2020 election.
The party’s struggles to stop Republicans from enacting new limits on voting procedures in state after state are the latest consequence of Democrats’ doomed drive to win more power in state governments last year. Key swing states where Democrats hoped to gain legislative footholds and break up unified GOP control, including Arizona, Florida and Georgia, have instead enacted new laws this year placing limits