AUSTIN Democrats on Sunday began mobilizing against a Republican elections bill that they contend is designed to suppress voting in communities of color. “T.
President Biden called a new Texas voting overhaul finalized by state Republicans an assault on democracy.
A draft of the bill was circulated around the state House and Senate Saturday, and the legislature is expected to pass the legislation and send it to GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk shortly.
The bill would ban drive-thru voting and 24-hour voting and would require voters to request absentee ballots rather than allowing election officials to send applications to all voters, and curtail the use of drop boxes. It sets early voting hours from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. It’s part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year and often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans, Biden said in a statement. It’s wrong and un-American.
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Joe Biden once had a term for politicians who were too cautious to push for meaningful gun reform legislation: cowards. “Why in God’s name can we say that we can’t do anything about 150,000 people being shot dead in the United States of America? Why are guns different?” Biden said during a campaign stop in Las Vegas in February 2020. “Because of cowardness. Because of cowards. Cowards who are afraid to take on these special interests because.