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The City of Boston Election Department today announced steps to increase accessibility of voting ahead of the November 2 general election.

Look at it and say isn't this better? an example of that is that it increases by one hour overall early voting hours during the week. so what they do is say, we're actually trying to increase over all early voting hours but what they're doing is, it's a point shaving system. they're taking away the mechanism for local communities to try to increase participation and doing things like saying to county registrars across the state, you cannot proactively send out mail-in ballots for people to fill out applications for. no more of that. so it's going to make it harder for people who relied on gett...

Voting bill. democrats walking out of the state house, preventing passage of legislation that they say would restrict voting rights. kelly o'donnell has the very latest. >> reporter: just minutes before a midnight deadline texas democrats headed for the exits. their walkout from the house floor derailed at least temporarily a controversial new voting law that would affect millions. >> we came together. we said enough is enough, the people of texas deserve better >> reporter: but now texas governor republican greg abbott will compel state lawmakers return for a yet unscheduled special session. ...

And enhanced criminal and civil penalties to the whole voting pro process. for example, it makes it a crime for a public official to send an unsolicited mail-in ballot application. it also prohibits overnight and sunday morning voting, which democrats pointed out could make it hard to do something like souls to the polls. it expands access for partisan poll watchers, stops drive-through voting and makes it easier to overturn election results by lessening the burden of proof for evidence of fraud. now, this bill we have been working through covering over months now but in the past few days over...

>> reporter: yeah, and, you know, i've 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 send an unsolicited mail-in ballot application. it also banned drive-in voting and would bar voting ...