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they re making up excuses. we saw in testimony over the weekend that harris county, more women chose to use drive-through voting. this is an attack on women and on black and brown communities. they re trying to make access to the ballot box harder so they can hold on to the power that they have and that s exactly what secretary castro was talking about. you worked as hud secretary, so you dealt with a lot of urban communities. places like harris county that is huge, has houston in it. they re talking about putting one ballot drop box there. absolutely ridiculous. one drop box for a county that has 4 million or 5 million people and you might have a county that has 10,000. one drop box each. what they re trying to do is to make it as hard as possible for especially black and brown communities and also people with disabilities, for instance, many senior citizens as well to vote. and i think that governor abbott also is worried about his potential primary challenge.
officials around the country who are engaged in a concerted effort to try to keep members of the population, citizens, from voting. and particularly black and brown citizens. i know we all talk about this as partisan, i know we talk about democrats and republicans. but who are the voters being targeted? the voters being targeted are black voters, brown voters, elderly voters, disabled voters. that s what we see happening. and that conduct is illegal. it violates federal law. but it s happening at such a quick pace and it s happening in so many states that it will be very difficult to stop it unless we get federal legislation and congress steps up and plays the role that the framers of the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution thought congress should hold. they thought they should have the power to enforce the provisions of the 14th and 15th
i waited it out. it s like the way it was going, it was set up for me to walk away. he s a great example of a person exercising his civic duty by any means necessary. now texas attorney general ken paxton who is being investigated by the state bar for his role in pushing the big lie with his lawsuit against four battleground states to try and overturn the election, that ken paxton, had hervis rogers arrested and is prosecuting him forecasting his ballot. rogers is charged with two counts of knowingly voting illegally, second-degree felonies with a possible sentence of 20 years in prison on each counting. his bail was set at a staggering $100,000. when he voted, rogers was a few months shy of the end of his parole for a burglary conviction in the 1990s. under texas lot formerly incarcerated are prohibited from voting until their parole ends. but rogers attorney from the
the texas democrats plan to spend their time here in the nation s capital instead pushing for federal voting legislation to protect voters. it is a dramatic yet effective move that the national democratic party would do well to try and pay attention to, seeing as they only have a few more weeks until the senate goes on a month-long recession taking what could be america s last chance to salvage free and fair elections with them. in a statement, the texas house democrats said, quote, we are living on borrowed time in texas. we need congress to act now to pass the for the people act and the john lewis voting rights act to protect texans, and all americans, from the trump republicans nationwide war on democracy. the lawmakers risk being arrested. absent lawmakers can be legally compelled to return to the state capitol. to that end the texas republican speak said, quote, the texas house will use every available resource under the texas constitution to secure a quorum. democrats are protes