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Texas Democrats who staged walkout pressure U.S. Senate to pass voting bills By Adam Brewster Texas Democrats block voting restrictions bill
A group of Democratic state lawmakers from Texas on Tuesday pressured U.S. senators to pass two major voting bills that have been stalled.
The Texas Democrats who traveled to Washington this week were part of a group of lawmakers who staged a walkout in the closing hours of the state s legislative session last month to defeat a sweeping election bill Republicans in the state were trying to pass. They met Tuesday with Congressional Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and spoke at the Senate Democrats lunch.
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Under the Republican bill, a judge could void a candidate’s victory if the number of fraudulent votes cast could change the outcome, even if no fraud was proven to have affected the result.