TX Repubs Fraudulently Change Website to Hide Abortion Bill 'Passage' After Senate Close

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Extraordinary. Texas Republican legislators are now, officially, the champions of vote fraud.

After Democratic state Senator Wendy Davis' nearly 13 hour standing filibuster of SB5, a draconian abortion restriction bill supported by the state's Republican Gov. Rick Perry, Republicans decided to throw the rule of law out the window, and hold a roll call vote on the bill after midnight, when the special session was officially over, according to state law.

Nonetheless, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst fraudulently announced that the bill, which had supposedly passed at 12:01am, had actually passed at 11:59pm the night before, when the state Senate would still have been legally in session. Making matters even worse, the Republicans then went back and changed the official TX Senate web page to reflect their blatant fraud.

Here's a screenshot from the TX Senate webpage BEFORE the fraud...
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10096

[Ilsa]

1. Happy to be first Rec. Please

Cross-post in GD for further exposure of GOP fraud, if you haven't done so.

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5. Done

posted in GD

[northoftheborder]

2. This "little" double fraud needs to be broadcast far and wide.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. They've been caught, but I'd be willing to bet that they'll try to justify their illegal actions by

claiming that they only did it to save lives. That will make it alright, in their eyes.

[riverwalker]

4. Texas GOP has a Flux Capacitor

and DeLorean time machine.

[EC]

6. Will this stand?

So is the bill considered passed then? I'm not sure they care if the people rebel or not. It seems if they want it passed, they'll just say it is.

[sonias]

8. They did lie that it passed

And in typical republican fashion - when facts don't agree to their warped sense of reality - well they just change the evidence of the fact. But they got caught this time - red handed. With digital evidence.

The Lt. Governor has since admitted that the bill did not pass.

What should happen next is that an investigation into the voter fraud should get national scrutiny and the perpetrators be charged to the full extent of the law!

[EC]

9. good

it's good to know that dishonesty is still frowned on in Texas.

[Ilsa]

11. How do we make that happen?

I don't know who we are supposed to write. AG Greg Abbott? That'll get the round file. Eric Holder?

[sonias]

7. Texas Observer Live blog & Senator Chuy Hinojosa's twitter

Senator Hinojosa with an assist to Senator Wendy Davis.

Texas Observer Live Blog

1:24 a.m.: Democratic senators are claiming that the time stamp on the vote has been changed. The following is a photo of Rep. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa holding two different time stamps. This indicates that the time was altered to make it look like a vote for Senate Bill 5 was taken on June 25 instead of June 26 as the time stamp originally appeared.

Reports, like this one from Observer staff writer Forrest Wilder, place the official vote at 12:02 a.m. on June 26. —Jonathan McNamara

Faced with electronic evidence of tampering - the repukes had to back down and admit defeat if only in the short term.

Either way I am awestruck by Senator Wendy Davis. She may have ignited a firestorm that will never die. I love her! Wendy!

[mbperrin]

10. Yes, make her run for governor!

please?

[sonias]

12. Even if she does - we're not there yet

Texas I mean. She is sure to lose her seat next election due to redistricting. I'm thinking I would love to see her go national.

Clinton/Davis 2016. Two take charge women who aren't afraid to fight!

[mbperrin]

13. I tell you what, I had a conversation earlier today with a lady

who has been on the Republican leadership team here since before Republicans mattered - her group donates nice small book editions of the Constitution to government classes here and signs up 18 year old students, all of them, to vote.

Here's what she said about Perry and SB5 - "If a smart woman like Wendy Davis can't show this dumb man (Perry) his mistake, she should have his job."

I'm thinking there's a lot of stealthy thinking along these same lines by strong capable Texas women who do not need and are not accustomed to some man making decisions for them.