“Election Integrity” or Voter Intimidation?
Texas Republicans are pushing changes to election laws that would let partisan poll watchers record voters in polling places.
Texas Republicans are pushing changes to election laws that would let partisan poll watchers record voters in polling places.
During a March webinar, Bill Ely pulled up a map of Harris County while presenting the local Republican Party’s ambitious plan for the 2022 midterms: building an “army” of 10,000 conservative election monitors. Ely, a local Tea Party leader who heads the committee within the Harris County GOP dedicated to ballot security, pointed to the northwest Houston suburb where he lives, where “almost seven out of 10 homes are Republican.” Ely stressed to other party leaders on the call the importance of recruiting more election monitors from neighborhoods like his, then he dragged the cursor down to the heart of the city. Pointing to majority Black and brown neighborhoods, Ely said th
The heated Arizona Legislature debate
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As voting fight moves westward, accusations of racism follow
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As voting fight moves westward, accusations of racism follow
ACACIA CORONADO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press
April 17, 2021
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1of5FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo voters deliver their ballot to a polling station in Tempe, Ariz. Arizona and Texas are both in the final stages of work on contentious pieces of state legislation to tighten voting laws. The GOP has pushed these measures after former President Donald Trump’s false insistence that he only lost the 2020 election because of voter fraud.Matt York/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5FILE - In this May 8, 2020, file photo Democratic state Sen. Martin Quezada urges speaks at the state Capitol in Phoenix. Arizona and Texas are both in the final stages of work on contentious pieces of state legislation to tighten voting laws. Quezada, a Latino from Phoenix, didn t back down. “This will hurt my community. This will hurt my neighborhood.”Bob Christie/APShow MoreShow Less