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Both chambers of the state’s Legislature have passed a bill that would limit police presence and prohibit electioneering within 100 feet of ballot drop boxes on election day, in an effort to discourage voter intimidation.
Republican state legislators, including dozens tied to the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), are pushing to loosen restrictions on poll watching, which has historically been aimed at preventing Black Americans from voting. These poll watching initiatives are part of a broader movement to suppress voting in the wake of a presidential election and violent insurrection that didn’t achieve what these lawmakers wanted. The Republican Party’s use of poll watching as an intimidation tactic has a particularly notorious history, and was essentially prohibited in 1982 w...
May 20, 2021 - 9:09am Republican state legislators, including dozens tied to the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), are pushing to loosen restrictions on poll watching, which has historically been aimed at preventing Black Americans from voting. These poll watching initiatives are part of a broader movement to suppress voting in the wake of a presidential election and violent insurrection that didn't achieve what these lawmakers wanted. The Republican Party's use of poll watching as an intimidation tactic has a particularly notorious history, and was essentially pr...
“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 G...