Texas Senate passes restrictive new voting bill. The final version of the Senate Bill 7 is not yet online for review, but the original version banned overnight early voting hours and drive-thru early voting. Bill now heads to the Texas House.
according to the Brennan Center for Justice; 49 bills have been introduced that would limit access to the ballot box.
"It makes it harder and scarier to vote or participate in the election process," Thomas Buser-Clancy, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. Poll watchers must swear they will not harass voters, but advocates nonetheless fear that the new law would give partisan poll watchers too much latitude.
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