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Link to Texas SB7 below, 27 pages so not a difficult read. 13 Senate Republicans cosponsoring. Requires proof of disability, no official can send applications for absentee ballots, no drive up or curbside voting, countywide polling places must have approximate number of same machines as other countywide locations in the county (no super sites), no voting after 7 and on and on

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00007I.pdf#navpanes=0

These are the muppets that have cosponsored: 
Sen. Bryan Hughes [R]

Sen. Paul Bettencourt [R]

Sen. Brian Birdwell [R]

Sen. Dawn Buckingham [R]

Sen. Donna Campbell [R]

Sen. Charles Creighton [R]

Sen. Bob Hall [R]

Sen. Lois Kolkhorst [R]

Sen. Jane Nelson [R]

Sen. Angela Paxton [R]

Sen. Charles Perry [R]

Sen. Charles Schwertner [R]

Sen. Drew Springer [R]

 

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Texas Republicans are rolling out a slew of restrictive election bills, taking particular aim at early voting after Democrats enthusiastically embraced the practice last year.

More than two dozen GOP-sponsored elections bills are under consideration in the Legislature as lawmakers seek to tighten ID requirements and voter rolls, limit early voting and up the penalties for errors. The broad interest — and a mandate from the governor to prioritize election legislation — makes changes to Texas' election law likely this year.

 

“We must pass laws to prevent election officials from jeopardizing the election process,” Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday, urging lawmakers to get election integrity bills “to my desk so I can sign it.”

State Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Republican who chairs the State Affairs Committee and introduced a 27-page omnibus bill with several new restrictions and penalties, said the 2020 election increased interest in legislation Texas lawmakers were already keen on.

"This was already in process, but then the 2020 election was so in the national spotlight, and so many people have questions, so many people have concerns," he told NBC News last week. "I would say that has raised the profile of the issue.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-gop-launches-avalanche-bills-curtail-voting-n1260747

 

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As has been the case in Georgia, progressives in Texas must prevail upon American, Southwest, at&t and other corporate citizens  who have declared their support for racial justice/equity to oppose the voter suppression strategies and tactics of Republicans.

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Help me with repub logic here? Many of these bills are being drawn up to limit voting behaviors that were really only utilized disproportionately by democratic leaning voters because we were in the midst of a 100 year pandemic and their leader told repubs not to. During normal times, practices like absentee/mail-in-voting and early voting are typically methods that republican leaning voters utilize in greater numbers. In a world where we're not in a once in a lifetime pandemic, won't some of these new laws make it more difficult for republicans to return to their old voting habits? 

More people vote for Democrats. Therefore, more votes are bad.
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5 hours ago, Satchel said:

As has been the case in Georgia, progressives in Texas must prevail upon American, Southwest, at&t and other corporate citizens  who have declared their support for racial justice/equity to oppose the voter suppression strategies and tactics of Republicans.

We don’t have Stacey Abrams. Who do we have? 

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Texas R's better try like hell to suppress voting in Hou / DFW / Austin / SA. It's their only hope 

they really should focus on a law banning voting in any Texas county with a Whole Foods. That 100% will keep them in power 

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7 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

I wish a tree would fall on every fucking Texas Republican elected official.

How fucking stupid does one have to be to let a tree fall on them? When a tree starts to fall, it is loud as fuck and going in one direction. See Prometheus.

Was he asleep underneath it?

Always thought it was a cover for a drunk driving accident that killed somebody.

Also, fuck him in his paralyzed goat ass.

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21 hours ago, Satchel said:

We have Beto and several grassroots organizations making headway on fighting back. We need leaders who will galvanize those waiting in the wings.

Yeah, we have a really sharp lady, Rose Clouston who heads up the TDP Voter Protection Program.  2020 was her first year, but she has done a great job in getting things organized.  But like you said, we don't have a central figure like Abrams yet to do the publicity part.   Hopefully we can get organized and one or two will emerge.  

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The ugly details of Georgia’s sweeping minority voting suppression legislation just passed by its House and Senate:

 

  • The bill would expand early voting for primary and general elections, but not for runoffs, which is how Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock secured their Senate seats -- and the Democrats' majority -- in January, breaking a decades-long streak of Democrats losing in statewide runoff elections.
  • For primaries and general elections, counties would be required to have advance voting on both Saturdays and have the option to do it on the two Sundays that fall in the three-week period, too. Current law only mandates one Saturday of early voting. Another omnibus election bill awaiting final votes, HB 531, originally banned early voting on Sundays, but it was changed following fierce pushback from Democrats and the faith community who called it a direct attack on Black voters who participated in "Souls to the Polls" events after Sunday service.
  • However, this bill would shorten the period between elections and runoffs from nine weeks to four weeks, and while counties would be able to start early voting "as soon as possible," the bill only requires it be offered Monday through Friday the week before the election -- a much shorter mandate that includes no weekend days. Complicating this further is the possibility that the week lines up with Thanksgiving, when many are traveling. This bill also bans early voting on holidays.
  • One provision of the bill would make it a crime for someone who is not an election worker to give food or beverage to any elector waiting in line to vote, a practice known as "line warming," except for self-service water stations. In the June 2020 primary, voters in Georgia's largest metro counties -- Democratic strongholds with large minority populations -- waited in line for up to eight hours.
  • Another provision bans out-of-precinct voting until 5 p.m., and electors arriving after that point must sign an affidavit saying they cannot get to their assigned precinct in time to vote. Currently, voters who show up to the wrong precinct can vote a provisional ballot and their votes will be counted for races they were eligible to vote for, like statewide races.
  • The bill would also eliminate the signature-matching process to verify mail ballots and instead require voters to provide their driver's license or state ID number, or a photocopy of another accepted identification if the elector lacks those.
  • While an audit examining the signatures in Georgia's third-largest county found no fraudulently cast ballots, this verification process was the source of much of the former president's post-election ire. Top Republicans, like the governor, endorsed changing from this "subjective" verification process to an "objective" one.
  • Secure ballot drop boxes are not explicitly sanctioned under current state law, and this bill would change that, but it would also implement new restrictions on their use compared to what voters experienced in the 2020 cycle.
  • Unless there's a health emergency, drop boxes could only be inside advance voting locations and only accessible when those locations are open. This means voters could not use them during the three days preceding an election or on Election Day -- the period when returning an absentee ballot by mail is most risky since it must arrive by 7 p.m. on Election Day to count.
  • Another provision would ban portable polling facilities, like the mobile voting buses Fulton County used last cycle, except in emergencies that force a polling precinct to close. Additionally, third-party groups would be barred from sending absentee ballot applications to any voter who has already requested, received or voted a mail ballot. Doing so subjects them to sanctions by the State Election Board.
  • The board would also get its own overhaul and the General Assembly would gain new power over elections.
  • The secretary of state would become a nonvoting member of the board and no longer chair it. Instead, the Republican-controlled General Assembly would elect a chair by a majority vote. Since the legislature already appoints two board members, under this bill they would appoint three of five voting members to the board that oversee elections and refers potential election law violations to the attorney general or relevant district attorney.
 
 
 

 

 

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  • Among the board's new authorities is the ability to suspend county election superintendents and appoint temporary replacements. But the board's power to enact emergency rules would be curtailed because the House and Senate Judiciary Committees would have the power to suspend rules put in place because of public health emergencies, like the one sanctioning drop boxes in the 2020 cycle.
  • Two provisions of the bill would add new burdens for county election divisions.
  • While counties would be allowed to begin processing absentee ballots weeks ahead of time, on election night workers would no longer have the ability to stop counting ballots until they are finished, excluding the few categories of ballots that can be accepted until the Friday after the election.
  • The bill also changes when counties must complete certification, moving up the deadline by four days -- a change that will most impact the large, metro counties that typically certify on or close to the current deadline
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1 hour ago, Bruh Man said:

TDS Dems were calling this guy a patriot 3 months ago.

 

Not sure what TDS means.  But this tweet is really not good.  Stacey Abrams exposed a fuck ton of evidence of voter suppression in Georgia, namely tens of thousands of people kicked off of voter roles that absolutely should not have been.  Raffensperger should be called out for this bullshit.

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Shorter time between GE and run-off and requiring completed counting on Election Night are the only ok things. Our election process is already too long. The rest is bullshit suppression. 

 

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5 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Disgraceful and disgusting.
 

 


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those arresting officers are dipshits, but let's make sure America doesn't forget who the people are who called them to arrest Rep. Cannon.  

History books will be littered with photographs of this era, of men who were "Just following orders."  It didn't work at Nuremberg, and it won't work now.  

Their grandchildren will always find out what a horrible person they were.  It always comes out.  

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32 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

Briscoe Cain continues to fumble his way through this.   

 

Here's the link to sign the petition.

https://progresstexas.actionkit.com/sign/petition-demand-republicans-end-their-attack-on-our-voting-rights?source=TDP

 

 

amusing take from Texas Monthly.  The theory: Briscoe is chair because the more moderate Speaker knows his incompetence will keep something from being passed. 

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Michael Dyson has never been a big Biden guy. Watch this clip:

 

Michael Eric Dyson: Meeting with historians showed Biden's ...

 
 
 
22 mins ago — Professor Michael Eric Dyson joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss his ... Mr Biden says his administration will not let a child starve and 'stay on the ... in the aftermath of the trial outcome last year, is suing Heard for defamation, and ... by solid economic data on factory activity and words of optimism about the

 

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9 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Update on the arrest.
 


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Felony obstruction???

A FELONY??!??!!?

These fucking racist pieces of shit, my god.

I am glad she stood up for herself and all of her constituents on this very important issue. In the end those scare tactic charges will be dismissed and she will be on the right side of history. If I were Stacey Abrams I would coordinate things and have Representative Cannon deliver a copy of the National Voting Rights Act, preferably one with the name John Lewis as part of it, directly to Kemp at his office about five seconds after it becomes the law of the land. 

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