Texas Republicans' Response to Georgia's Voter Restriction Laws: Hold My Beer
Republicans, no matter which state, know one thing: The more access people have to the ballot box, the less likely most people will vote for them.
The remedy to that problem is simply to restrict peoples access to voting. Republicans in Texas, following the voter suppression efforts of their colleagues in Georgia, have advanced a slew of new voting restrictions Thursday that limit ways in which residents can vote, including cutting polling hours and granting more power to partisan poll watchers, according to the Associated Press.
These Jim Crow-style rules are being introduced by a bill that was approved in the GOP-controlled state Senate. One of the signature rules in the bill would cut drive-through voting entirely. More than 127,000 people around Houston used this form of voting last year; half of those voters were Black, Latinx or Asian, according to Democratic state Sen. Carol Alvarado, the AP notes.
Harris County, home to more than 2 million voters and made up of mostly Democrats, includes Houston.
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