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Deadline and said they could leave if they wanted. what did he think was going to happen? >> bill: our research the facts what weve been able to find. a few items here. the claim was to make it difficult to vote early. you just addressed that a little bit. >> not true. >> bill: the law requires early voting for at least nine hours per day. mail-in voting we talked about that. the claim is it prevents voting by mail. in fact, the law offers new restrictions on unsolicited applications. another on...

The people act, less sweeping, renewing the voting rights act as senator manchin is suggesting? >> craig, this is already a bigger issue. this is -- the federal government needs to understand whats happening at the state level. 47 states have engaged in acts of voter supremacy through their legislative process, voter suppression, rather. and so the question becomes how do we respond, how do we begin to create standards and norms that voters can trust the voting process. this goes to federal offi...

Republicans. ainsley: if you read about this, there are so many different -- everyone is weighing in on this say would he go dont like it. they are making it controversial. we saw what happened in georgia when they tried to beef up their georgia voting bill. and so many people left that state, including the nba. no, baseball. mlb. so here are some facts. the facts about this bill, the bill generally requires early voting for at least nine hours per day between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. the bill co...

Ballot and put your address on there, and theyll send you one, and all they do is match your signature, and they have an obligation if the signature is illegible, theyre supposed to track you down to make sure they can resolve it to preserve your access to the vote. >> can i ask you, why do you think were seeing in state after state republicans instead of trying to craft a message that will appeal to more voters, instead, theyre trying to knock voters out of the system in the most undemocratic o...

>> i do want to be clear that texas, even without sb-7 already has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the entire country. but what this bit of legislation that was effectively killed for this session by democrats in their walkout last night would have done is add new restrictions and regulations as well as new criminal and civil penalties to the voting process. it would end drive-through voting. and mass mailing of mail-in ballot applications by public officials. it would actually make ...

Enough. >> and so look, they know that at this point, this is a victory for now, because governor abbott says it looked, this particular part of legislation was the legislative priority before the session began and we could be looking at a special session that could begin as early as tomorrow. jim, poppy? >> you have two elements to these voting laws, in some states, one is restricting the voting process, access hours, et cetera, the other is what happens after the voting, and do court ors legis...

She wouldnt go along with the big lie. because she called out the big lie. and so, this is -- you talk about circular logic. were going, as a party, were going to spread lies that are going to shatter americans faith in their own democracy, in the voting process, and then were going to pass more restrictive bills to take care of a problem that doesnt exist. but well take care of the optics problem that we created. >> thats correct. >> talk about some twisted logic. but ive heard that from one re...

>> reporter: yeah, and, you know, ive covered this across the country kind of going state by state as these bills have been introduced in more than a dozen states, passed into law. in texas we see some of those same elements. texas already has the most restrictive voting laws in the country and this would have just made it more restrictive by adding new requirements and adding criminal and civil penalties to the voting process here. like, for example, making it a crime for a public official to s...

Governor greg abbott, who named this as a top legislative priority before the session even began, has said that he will call a special session to bring it back, but i dont want to undermine just how big this was last night. now, look, this bill contains a slew of new restrictions and regulations as well as civil and criminal penalties to the whole voting process, for example, it makes it a crime for a public official to send an absentee mail ballot application. it gets rid of overnight and early...

Its a 67 page document that does a lot. many of the items that are making headlines in past versions were still included like codifying these early voting hours that in some cases might expand early voting time in counties. but in large and diverse counties, it will likely cause them to lose early voting time. it will eliminate the ability to do 24 hour voting and drive through voting which is something that harris county piloted to help with the pandemic. they saw record turnout last year. ther...