The Texas Voting Lie | National Review

Anything the left can do get gather more power, they'll do. Including blatant lies about Republican run states. Delaware's voting laws are more restrictive than Georgia's, but the left keeps that quiet cause that's Sleepy Joe's backyard.

Thank you my articulate conservative and second-amendment advocate friend SGT (Join to see) for posting the perspective from the nationalreview.com contributing author Rich Lowry

No surprise the Texas democrats used all the parliamentary options at their disposal walked out instead of voting on this reasonable bill. Shame on them.
I expect the Election Integrity Protection Act will be passed in the special session to be called by Governor Greg Abbott



I concur with overall tenor of this article and am posting sections I concur with.
"The Democratic opposition to legislative minorities using whatever leverage they have to block legislation is highly situational.
In Washington, D.C., where Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress, the Senate filibuster is portrayed as a Jim Crow relic that is profoundly undemocratic.
In Austin, Texas, where Republicans control the governor’s mansion and both chambers of the legislature, House Democrats’ walking out to prevent the passage of a bill with majority support is portrayed as a heroic act preserving our democracy.
The bill in question is an election-reform measure that Democrats allege is the latest instance of state-level GOP voter suppression.
The only recourse, they say, is at the federal level. The Senate filibuster should be eliminated — so much for the rights of legislative minorities — and then the narrowest-possible Democratic Senate majority should pass H.R.1, overriding long-standing, duly-passed election laws all around the country and essentially federalizing our elections.
Democracy, they tell us, demands nothing less.

To the contrary, this would be a power grab carried out under blatantly false pretenses.
The Texas bill is no more a voter-suppression measure than the Georgia election law that passed a few months ago, which occasioned outraged accusations of the arrival of Jim Crow 2.0 that ultimately fell flat.
The least defensible part of the Texas law is its provision saying that early voting on the Sunday before the election can’t begin until 1 p.m., which could crimp the traditional “souls to the polls” turnout efforts of black churches. A Republican legislator says this was a drafting error. Regardless, the provision should — and almost certainly will be — changed.
The rest of the legislation is unobjectionable. It pushes back against what were supposed to be temporary expedients during the pandemic, such as drive-through voting and 24-hour early-voting marathons. Texas democracy was healthy and robust prior to these emergency innovations, and it will be when they are gone.

It explicitly forbids election officials implementing practices not contemplated under the state’s election statutes, as sometimes happened during the pandemic.
In many counties, it will extend the daily minimum time for early voting by one hour.
In certain circumstances, by the way, employers are required to give employees time off to go vote.
Its provisions for increased security and transparency are hardly draconian. Among other things, it would require voters to write a driver’s license number or other identifier on absentee ballots, matching the existing voter-ID requirement for registering to vote and voting in person.
It would ban public officials from sending out unsolicited mail-in ballots, a commonsense provision to keep excess ballots from floating around. Certainly, it’s not too much to ask that people affirmatively request their mail-in ballots.
It would mandate that all voting systems have a paper trail on or before 2026, with a funding incentive for counties to comply early."


Texas Democrats stage walkout to stop debate on restrictive voting bill
Texas Democrats on Sunday night used every parliamentary tool at their disposal to tank a bill that would add new restrictions to elections in the state, ultimately staging a walkout to prevent a vote from being held. The victory is likely short lived. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said that the bill would be added to a special session agenda. Senate Bill 7, known as the Election Integrity Protection Act, passed the state Senate along party lines early Sunday morning after an all-night debate. The bill came up in the state House Sunday evening for final approval. But after hours of debate and delaying tactics, the chamber adjourned after Democratic lawmakers left in protest, breaking quorum and ending debate. More from NBC NewsRemains of more than 200 children found at Indigenous school in CanadaAs Covid risk dwindles in Europe, police warn of renewed terrorist threatsU. K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson marries fiancée in surprise ceremonyThe sweeping bill would ban drive-thru voting, limit voting hours, make it more difficult to cast mail ballots and empower partisan poll watchers. The final version of S. B. 7 is the result of a bicameral group of mostly Republican lawmakers reconciling proposals previously passed by both chambers. Elements were hashed out behind closed doors, and Democrats have argued they were left largely in the dark as last-minute changes and entirely new provisions were pushed through. Democrats repeatedly pointed to language that could make it easier to overturn an election in Texas that was not included in original legislation. According to the bill text, a court may void an election if the number of fraudulent votes cast could change the result, whether or not fraud was proven to have affected the outcome. Opponents railed against the new measures during debate Sunday night, calling them "unconscionable" and undemocratic. "The voices of Texans were not heard in this debate," state Rep. John Bucy III said. But Republican state Rep. Travis Clardy said lawmakers who back the measures had done their "level best" to be transparent and release information. The legislation will "make it easier for Texans to vote" and "harder to cheat" for "those determined to break the law," he said.
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Just remember that in just about every modern, 1st world country, you need an id to vote. You need an ID to get the COVID vaccine. You need an ID to get liquor. You need an ID to get cigarettes. You need an ID to get into the DNC. You need an ID to cash check. BUT, HOLY HECK IT IS RACIST TO REQUIRE AN ID TO VOTE. FFS, the hypocritical Democrats are stupid, and so are the people who follow them like sheep.