U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday promoted the Biden administration's efforts to advance voting rights when she met 16 fellow Democrats from the Texas state legislature who successfully blocked a bill they said would make it harder for Blacks and Hispanics to vote.
to lead the charge against Republican state lawmakers across the country seeking to enact voting restrictions.
"What we are seeing are examples of an attempt to interfere with that right, an attempt to marginalize and take from people, a right that has already been given," Harris said. Under the Texas proposal, drive-through voting would no longer be allowed, early voting would be limited, 24-hour polling sites would be scrapped, and absentee ballots would be more difficult to cast.
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