To kind of regroup what happened. That was not intended to be reduced. I think there was a call it a mistake if you want to, what should have been 11 was printed up as one. Thats a supporter of the bill, republican supporter of the bill that called it a typo, mistake. Why it took them more than three days to find the mistake and many public arguments about the mistake, in fact, supporting the 1 00 p. M. Time frame is nonanswered. The very public outcry is anyones guess exactly what is going on. Now, maybe his retreat on especially problematic piece is a welcome sign if so a lonely One And Exception to president bidens warning that Quote Democracy is in paril. Consider what weve seen in the last few days. There is credible reporting that the defeated former president has been telling Friends Hell be back in office by august. Weve seen a Qanon Conspiracy promoting retired general porper national Security Michchael Fly endorse a Military Coup to make that happen and weve heard from americ
Targeted effort to stop some people, including those in the disabout disability community, young voters, black voters from being able to fully participate in upcoming elections. the bill was thoroughly debated. not one republican mentioned the typo during that debate. one republican defiended the start time saying they wanted to go to church, too. this bill changed during the course of the legislative session and this souls to polls as well as another one that is worse that would allow texas to overturn elections based on allegations of fraud, those were introduced in a 20-page addendum that was given to legislatures hours before they were asked to vote on this. so this is a bill that got from that went from bad to much worse and my fear is that even though texas house democrats bought us time by
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Defeating this bill of sunday, there is going to be a special session called by governor abbott and the next iteration promises to be even worse. the thing is we got this window of time. that session probably won t be called until july if the united states senate the for the people act, it would stop these provisions in texas and georgia and florida and other states that have adopted them and expand access to the polling place for eligible voters. that s the direction our country needs to move in. when you look at the proposed restrictions beyond what we mentioned, anyone who drives more than two non-relatives to the polls would need a signed form stating the reason their passengers required assistance eliminating drive-through voting, eliminating drop off boxes. it would be one thing if there were mounds of evidence over the course of many years that all of these things resulted in wide spread voter fraud but it s just the opposite all of the evidence other than the lies coming from
Democrat tpresident. biden never uttered trump s name but said the vaccine development approval came under trump as the adadministration s goal of getting 70% of the population vaccinated by july 4th. thanks for joining us. time for ac 360. good evening. we begin with a striking claim about one of the most controversial provisions in the bill texas state republicans are pushing to restrict voting. it would have limited polling hours on sundays to after 1:00 p.m. drastically affecting the souls to the polls voter turnouts in black churches around the state. right now the bill is in limbo after state house democrats ran the clock out for current legislative session. now, some of the backers are trying to say that the whole sunday voting hours portion of the bill was nothing more than a ty typo. call it whatever you want to, i talked to our team yesterday