Left-leaning groups are launching a $30 million campaign aimed at persuading the Senate to pass a sweeping voting rights bill that most Republicans have come out against.
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.
Major companies based in Georgia such as Coca-Cola and Home Depot said they agreed with the Georgia Chamber of Commerce raising concern regarding legislation that would limit voting access, according to
ATLANTA Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan further distanced himself from many in his party’s conservative base on Sunday in a Meet the Press interview when he blasted proposed election restrictions as “solutions in search of a problem” and sharpened his criticism of former President Donald Trump.
An expert at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said that the Democrat-led election reform bill would eviscerate ballot security measures, amounts to a federal takeover of elections, and is a "threat to American democracy."