cases skyrocket, and students, the majority of whom are not yet eligible to be vaccinated head back to class. welcome to mtp daily. a couple of big victories for republicans in texas with national implications. the biden administration and democrats in congress are looking on after a summer of broken quorums and bolt from the statehouse, the controversial voting bill got greg abbott s signature in the last hour. the final version bans drive through and 24 hour voting, establishes new id requirements for mail-in balloting. criminal penalties for voting law violations and empowers partisan poll watchers.
floor, but enough democrats have returned to proceed. and many of the democrats are avoiding the capitol and calling on the colleagues to deny this quorum. many of the house senators would restrict mail-in voting and eliminate some options like mail-in voting in harris county and add criminal penalties for voting law violations as well as allow bipartisan poll watchers. and thank you for joining us, and my apologies if we have to break early if the president interrupts us. so, if the house convenes later today, what is going to happen? well, first, garrett, when the republicans said they made quorum last week, they used a roll call that is 12 days old, so i don t believe they have a legitimate quorum, and they may
advanced out of committee two bills to add new criminal penalties for voting law violations and give new powers to partisan poll watchers who show up as you re going in to cast your vote and revision to voting by mail and drive through voting. they are one of many state legislatures passing new voting restrictions despite, which i remind everyone, no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. david chalian is here with me. so it did take out two of the most controversial parts of the original proposal. one to limit sunday voting which is key in african-american communities for the polls, but also a thing that is really worrisome, the ideas that judges could overturn results without evidence of fraud. and so what remains, what does it do? you just ticked through some of the them but it ended that 24 hour voting. it ends the drive through voting. these were some things put into place because of coronavirus. the pandemic changed the way
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now putting forward new bills that look very, very similar to their original voting restriction laws. hb-3, filed by the texas house last night, and sb-1, filed today in the senate, include banning many of the measures texas put in place during the last election, measures that contributed to the state s record turnout in 2020. things like drive-through voting and overnight voting. the bills all add criminal penalties for voting law violations. they would add new id requirements to vote by mail and empower partisan poll watchers. the efforts by state democrats did have a positive impact as ari berman writes in mother joans. after public outrye republicans have backed away from a few of the most controversial provisions including ones that make it easier to overturn elections and cut sunday voting. as noted in the times , it is happening in a brand-new world. quote, republicans new election overhaul bill in texas, a state