“They’re outnumbered and they know that.”
about what, if anything, state Democrats can do to stop the Republican assault on voting, and what this battle means for the future of Texas politics. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.AdvertisementTexas is a state that has a very long history of making it harder to vote or tightening the rules around voting. And with that history has come a pretty bad track record of discriminating against Black and Hispanic voters in the process. That’s our starting point here.
Yeah, but it was also things like moving to countywide voting, which predated the pandemic, basically letting voters cast their ballot anywhere in the county as opposed to being stuck within their precincts. It’s something that’s available in a whole lot of other counties, but leading up to the 2020 election, a lot of the remaining urban counties that weren’t doing that moved to that model. And so you had locals trying different voting options.
to distribute an application to request a ballot to a voter who didn’t request the application. It touched everything from early voting to vote tabulations.Once both chambers passed their own version, it went behind closed-door negotiations and came back even bigger, adding new ID requirements for voting by mail, limiting Sunday early voting hours, which wasn’t originally there.
It seems the Republicans really pushed the Democrats almost like a test, like, what happens if we push you this far?Breaking quorum is an extraordinary measure. It doesn’t happen often. You’re basically walking out on the job. And I think the impact of that was weighing on Democrats in the lead-up to this.They had prepared points of order, which are these procedural challenges to the bill that can in many cases end up derailing it or even killing it if it’s close enough to a deadline like S.B.
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