Political consideration’s in re-writing the Texas voting rules and regulations law are coming down on the actually civil servants who administer the elections…
This is bound to affect voting for people of BOTH parties come in upcoming Election Day’s…..
Election officials in Texas are struggling to implement new provisions in the state’s voting laws ahead of the March 1 primaries — a warning sign for states that participated in the GOP push to rewrite voting rules after former President Donald Trump’s defeat.
Hang-ups include putting new ID requirements in place and navigating stricter rules about how to distribute voter registration and absentee ballot forms. The issues have frustrated and confused the people in charge of managing the vote in Texas, election officials from four counties said in interviews.
Among the consequences: An unusually high number of applications to vote by mail were rejected ahead of the primary, officials said.
The pileup of issues stem from the nationally watched fight over a new voting law last summer, which Democrats sought to block by twice breaking quorum and even absconding to Washington, D.C., for a time. The legislation eventually passed and was signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott after several Democratic lawmakers returned to Austin, but the breaks delayed the bill’s enactment by several months.
Now, the hurried process to implement the law highlights some of the unintended effects of the red state push to change voting bills over the last year. Managing changes to election procedures often falls to county officials on tight budgets with little time — and GOP legislators in numerous states are still considering new election bills this year, months before their 2022 primaries….
Voting restrictions Republicans decided we needed after the most issue free election ever–according to Republican election officials!
But yeah, there’s no voter suppression here.
Yes I’ve mentioned this before.
Why are we in need of voting “reforms “ when election officials across the country said this was one of the smoothest elections ever?
Of course the answer is that Donald Trumps Republican Party took their orders and began all this “reform” as a direct result of his lies about the election being “stolen.”
Who said it was one of the ‘smoothest’?
And yup Trump & Co. took to the media to ‘try’ and spread a false narrative about a crooked election….
Less than a year later?
Turns out election official get most of things right like they usually do…
More on the mess Republicans have created in trying to further voter suppression…..
We are now starting to learn how a raft of new election laws will actually affect voters.
New laws, passed by GOP-controlled legislatures under the guise of securing elections in multiple states, will lead to fewer people voting if Texas foreshadows what will happen in other states.
Early voting kicked off in Texas on Monday for US congressional seats, governor and six other statewide offices.
CNN’s Fredreka Schouten talked to people who tried and failed, more than once, to get and cast an absentee ballot….
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