Texas GOP puts final touches on sweeping voting restrictions

[LeftInTX]

8. I really don't have problems with those part of the bill

But the most egregious part of the bill is that any judge can overthrow any election for no reason.


Election Workers can be charged with a felony for asking a partisan pollwatcher to leave, no matter what the poll watcher is doing.

People can't drive voters to the polls unless they are related to them.


Polls were not open 24/7 in Bexar County because our elections admin saw it as a logistic nightmare...Polls were open until 10 and by 9 pm no one was showing up. We also did not have drive in here either...

But this bill will prevent voting advocates from obtaining official vote by mail applications. The parties can print their own, but voters might be skeptical that it is a real application. As a precinct chair, I hand out official vote by mail applications. All VBM applications must have a SS# or state ID # (I really don't have a problem with this, as long as they don't require a copy of the ID)

They also cut one hour off of "souls to the polls"...(The hour after church has been cut) This ruins souls to the polls. Maybe they can make accommodations by serving lunch and then going to the polls. Maybe lunch is another reason to get parishioners to stick around!

They left one part of the bill on the floor: The closing of polling sites in counties over 1 million.