Fact check: Here are 20 things Texas Republicans' elections bill would do

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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has claimed that his party is trying to make it both harder to cheat and "easier to vote."

Bans drive-through voting sites

Bans late-night voting and 24-hour voting

Bans Sunday morning hours

Bans ballot drop boxes

Adds early voting hours in some counties

Adds a new identification requirement for mail-in ballots

Bans officials from mailing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications

Allows officials to look at old signatures

Adds requirements for voters with disabilities

Adds requirements for people helping voters with disabilities cast a ballot

Adds requirements for people driving voters with disabilities

Adds a free movement requirement for poll watchers

Guarantees poll watchers can follow election materials

Adds criminal penalties for election officials who obstruct poll watchers

Adds other criminal penalties for elections officials

Makes it easier to overturn elections

Forbids counties from making their own changes

Requires video surveillance

Creates a "vote harvesting services" felony

Requires newly convicted felons to be notified of voting prohibition

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/02/politics/fact-check-texas-elections-bill-voting-sb7-republicans-abbott/index.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. I think just about everyone has standing to challenge the various parts of this bee ess bill.

wtf is up with regulating people who drive disabled voters to the polls. Talk about big gov't.

[Bullfeathers]

2. What is

drive by voting?

[marble falls]

4. Dropping your mail in ballot into a ballot box from your car.

[Bullfeathers]

5. I've never heard

that phrase before. Sorry I was having a little pareidolia

[LeftInTX]

8. It's drive through voting

A polling site is set up in a parking lot. A poll worker comes to the car. Don't need to get out of the car.


There is also something called curbside voting, but it must be pre-arranged on an individual basis. An election worker will come out to your car if someone contacts an election worker to come out. Curbside, is not as convenient as drive through and is a bit of a hassle, but for those who can't walk inside, it is a godsend. Almost all people who utilize curbside are handicapped, but it is not a legal requirement.

New law will prohibit parking lot sites...

I believe only Harris County set up parking lot sites...
It sure is a more convenient alternative to curbside. I kinda feel Harris County overdid it and now the GOP wants to get rid of it. I believe it was the first time drive through was used in Texas. It would be great to have the ability to have a drive up site dedicated to disabled people in all counties

[yonder]

3. Molly Ivins would be having a field day.

The party of less and local government doing what they do.....and calling it something else.

[dragonlady]

6. The only one that has some merit

The last one on advising felons that they cannot vote, if that is the case under state law, could ultimately be to their advantage. Some felons out of prison but still on parole have not understood this and got themselves another stint in prison for trying to be good citizens. (If it were up to me they could vote like everyone else.)

[IcyPeas]

7. This from a governor who is himself, disabled and in a wheelchair.

Wtf.