Commentary: Will lawmakers leave elections to the Texas Supreme Court?
Al Kauffman, For the Express-News
July 7, 2021
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Texas Democrats stopped SB 7 with a dramatic walkout during the regular session. But much of that bill will be back in a special session, and the intent behind it remains.Acacia Coronado /Associated Press
In the special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott beginning today, the Texas Legislature will be asked to develop a new method of suppressing minority voters and encouraging the all-Republican Texas Supreme Court to decide elections.
Let’s look at the conference committee bill that sped through the Texas Senate, and almost through the Texas House, to see what almost surely will be in the bill the Legislature passes.
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Commentary: New dangers in Texas voting bills
Al Kauffman, For the Express-News
May 12, 2021
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A poll watcher monitors Houston election workers in November. Senate Bill 7 could create an intrusion of privacy poll watchers who are appointed by campaigns will be allowed “near enough to see and hear” and election judges cannot restrict their movement or stop them from recording voters.Jon Shapley /Staff photographer
Texas Republicans have joined their confederates in Georgia, Florida and other Republican-controlled swing states in passing voting restrictions clothed in the language of voting integrity.
A Texas Senate bill passed last month and a House bill close to passing are based on a fanciful theory without factual basis that Texas elections have been consistently fraudulent and rife with corruption and partisan manipulation.
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