Texas is, alas, up to its eyeballs in an ever-deepening rugby pile of Democrat-voting illegal immigrants, and I fear the state will have turned blue, like my home state of Virginia, by the time two election cycles have gone by. But Texas is doing what it can while it still has control of its mental faculties, and this means trying to pass an election-integrity bill through its legislature. The Texas state Senate has passed the bill; I imagine the bill has to go through the Texas House now.
The Republican-led Texas state Senate passed a bill early on Thursday that would ban mail-in ballot drop boxes and most drive-thru voting—in the wake of controversy about the voting practices being used during the Nov. 3 election [last year].
The bill, which passed 18–13 along party lines, will now head to the Texas state House of Representatives. Committee hearings are slated to start when the lawmakers convene Tuesday, April 6.
The measure, according to State Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Republican, is “designed to address areas through process where bad actors can take advantage because we want the people of Texas to be confident their elections are fair, honest, and open.” The legislation “standardizes and clarifies” voting rules so “every Texan has a fair and equal opportunity to vote, regardless of where they live in the state,” he added.
It will also require voters who have disabilities to prove that they cannot access polls in person in order to qualify for a mail-in ballot, and it would also require authorization from top state leaders to be alerted about any private funding of more than $1,000 that is given to election departments, according to KXAN.
The state already required that a voter provide a reason to vote by mail, including being age 65 or older, having an illness or disability, or those confined to jail or who are out of the United States during the election.
Democrats accused Republicans in the Senate of engaging in so-called voter suppression.
Let the Dems rant and foam. I don't give a shit. "Voter suppression," my big, fat ass.
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