TX GOP say they don't know how the "overturning elections" section made its way into the voting bill

[Nevilledog]

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Taylor Goldenstein
@taygoldenstein
Top Texas House Republicans say they don’t know how the "overturning elections" section made its way into the state's controversial voting bill #SB7, denounce it as "horrendous policy" + say they don't plan to revive it in a special.

My latest:
https://houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-Republicans-say-lowering-the-bar-for-16240218.php… #txlege

Texas Republicans say lowering the bar for overturning elections is bad policy. So why did they try?
One of the top authors of the bill now denounces the measures related to overturning...
houstonchronicle.com
6:15 PM · Jun 10, 2021

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-Republicans-say-lowering-the-bar-for-16240218.php

[PortTack]

1. If that's the case...good. Maybe they have someone in their legal department smart enough

To realize that will never fly. Or, maybe just back tracking after being caught

[Nevilledog]

4. I'd be pretty comfortable betting they are lying.

They're following the same script pushed by the Heritage Foundation.

[soothsayer]

7. They probably didn't read it when Heritage sent it over

They just adopted it wholesale.

[PortTack]

9. Agree! I understand this is why the wording in all these bills/laws is so similar

Marc Elias commented on it in his twitter feed

[gratuitous]

2. More self-writing legislation

Nobody knows how those random letters formed themselves together to spell out a horribly undemocratic passage. Just one of those mysteries!

[Grokenstein]

3. Not Me and Ida Know were reportedly seen fleeing the building.

[Deminpenn]

16. LOL

[everyonematters]

5. I'll bet they have some internal polling that shows people really don't like this and

it is inflaming Democrats to turn out and vote.

[PortTack]

6. That's a good assumption. With Beto O'Rourke Drawing big crowds at his voter registration rallies

They are probably pretty nervous

[dalton99a]

8. They also couldn't tell the difference between 1 am, 11 am, 1 pm , 11 pm, etc. for early voting

[UTUSN]

10. Yea right

[Solly Mack]

11. Like when one spouse tells the other spouse that the affair just happened.

As if they were walking along and somehow fell down a hole, landing into or onto, and didn't know it was happening until it was all over.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. Evil legislative fairies changed it while we were sleeping.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

[Progressive Jones]

13. ALEC and Heritage Foundation do all the work for the GOP. The GOP just rubber stamps it. nt

[blogslug]

14. lol

They know how it got in there, they just don't want to say how it got in there.

[struggle4progress]

15. "I really have no idea why I'm shown smashing windows on this security tape "

[RandiFan1290]

17. Does any of this turn off the 'moderates?'

or do they just wilt at comments made by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez?

[Captain Stern]

18. They want to keep their options open.

They probably feel that they can suppress the vote enough where they won't need any judges to overturn an election.

And if they haven't, and they have to falsify some results, they certainly don't want some 'activist' judge to be able to overturn their stolen election.