Stacey Abrams lists anti-voter bills that FAILED in Texas

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Stacey Abrams
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TEXAS: Your voices are making a difference. Last night, many anti-voter bills failed, proving the power of collective advocacy to protect our freedom to vote, but we must keep speaking out to defend voting rights. Read below what you stopped and how to keep fighting: #txlege
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TEXAS: Your voices are making a difference. Last night, many anti-voter bills failed, proving the power of collective advocacy to protect our freedom to vote, but we must keep speaking out to defend voting rights. Read below what you stopped and how to keep fighting: #txlege

HB 3080, which would have created a misdemeanor offense for any person to send a mail ballot application to a person who did not first request one and would have enacted a process of thumbprint verification for mail ballots. #txlege

HB 3281, which would have required ballots returned by mail to be postmarked by the fourth day before Election Day and received by 5pm the day before Election Day. The bill would also have reduced the time to apply for a mail ballot. #txlege

HB 1725, which would have banned drop boxes entirely, by explicitly prohibiting the return of mail ballots to unattended receptacles other than a mailbox or common carrier receptacle. #txlege

HB 3970, which would have shifted the burden of proof for signature verification of mail ballots to presume that signatures do not match. This provision could have sharply increased ballot rejections. #txlege

HB 3269, which would have allowed only voters who returned their unvoted mail ballot to vote using a regular ballot at a polling location. The bill would have required voters who applied for ballots but voted in person for other reasons to vote using a provisional ballot. #txlege

HB 330, which would have limited mail voting for those living in residential facilities by requiring them to complete ballots in the presence of election workers at the facility. It also would have limited voters' ability to choose someone to help them complete a ballot. #txlege

HB 2546, which would have created an escalating set of training, audits, and criminal penalties for clerks and registrars who the Secretary of State deemed non-compliant with voter list maintenance requirements, including adding a state jail felony for election officials. #txlege

HB 329, which would have encouraged criminal investigations of voters with questioned citizenship statuses and voters who have shown a reasonable impediment to obtaining a photo ID. #txlege

HB 2320, which would have created a state jail felony for any person other than the voter or their assistant if they pre-filled the disability reason for mail ballot voting on a ballot application. #txlege

HB 3297, which would have created several new election-related criminal offenses and raised the severity of many existing election-related criminal offenses to felonies. #txlege

HB 4459, which would have created a state jail felony for any election official who arranged a ballot in a way that would allow a voter to vote for all candidates belonging to the same party in a single gesture or motion. #txlege

HB 4507, which would have forced voters to register separately for federal and state/local elections, and would have held elections for federal offices and other offices on separate days. #txlege

The defeat of these bills does not mean the fight is over, but it is important evidence of the impact of voter advocacy and grassroots pressure. Texans: keep speaking out against remaining anti-voter bills like SB 7—go to StopJimCrow2.com to take action today. #txlege

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[yellowdogintexas]

1. Awesome. A couple of these are redundant has hell. Like HB4459

Texas did away with straight ticket voting in 2020.

HB 3269 is already in force; we stopped requiring provisional ballots this past year for folks turning in their mail in ballots & voting in person

And some of them are just plain stupid, like HB4507 - registering separately for federal vs state is absolutely ludicrous.

[yellowdogintexas]

2. I think there are probably 100 more but this is a good start

I did not read that stuff too carefully, being on the right side of a couple of glasses of a good red wine