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Democrats win battle over GOP voting bill, but can t win war without Joe Biden, Senate Dems

AUSTIN Texas Democrats won a battle in a war that they cannot win, unless they get help from President Joe Biden and their fellow party members in.

Democrats win battle over GOP voting bill, but can t win war without Joe Biden, Senate Dems | Nation/World

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Democrats won a battle in a war that they cannot win, unless they get help from President Joe Biden and their fellow party members in Washington. On Sunday Democrats trickled out of the House chambers to defeat a Senate-driven elections bill that they say discriminated against voters of color. The bill, which the Senate approved in the wee hours of Sunday morning without input from Democrats, would have set uniform early voting hours, further empower partisan poll watchers, and put new criminal penalties on voting officials and assistants who break the rules. It also would have banned 24-hour and drive-through voting, penalized election officials that send mail-in ballot applications to those who do not ask for them, and required some people who drive voters to the polls to hand over their personal information. The Senate proposal also mandated that early voting on Sunday begin at 1 p.m. instead of a 9 a.m. start time — a provision critics say was ai

An independent redistricting commission is essential to the preservation of our democracy

Lampson After signing the United States Constitution in 1787, as Benjamin Franklin was leaving the building, he was asked, “What have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”  Without hesitation, Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Our founders put control of our government in our hands by allowing us to vote for the people we want to represent us. But today, in both political parties, gerrymandering has stolen our vote and placed it in the hands of relatively few voters.  Partisan gerrymandering has resulted in legislators choosing their voters rather than voters choosing their legislators, with the primary goal of preserving legislative control by the majority party.  Consequently, most legislative and congressional races are decided in the primary, with few competitive races on the ballot in the general election.

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