Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 4:30 PM Courtesy Photo / Office of the Governor Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a recent news conference. Throwing in with other Republican lawmakers looking to make voting harder, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday he s backing a pair of election integrity bills that would rein in municipalities efforts to expand poll access. Abbott trumpeted efforts in the Texas Legislature to safeguard against fraud and create uniform voting rules. However, voting-rights experts say those measures are part of a flood of Republican-supported state bills looking to limit the poll access for potential Democratic voters.