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ADVERTISEMENT Democrats and voting rights advocates counter that the proposals are thinly veiled attempts to restrict access to the polls.  “In the last 10 years, we have seen some politicians try to enact changes to the rules of the game so that some people can participate and some people can’t,” said Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Voting Rights and Elections Program. “Rather than competing for voters, there are some politicians that instead would prefer to lock people out of the process.” In some states, the new bills would roll back emergency votin...

Biden transition spokesperson Jamal Brown told The Hill that the former vice president “will work to enact the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act when in office." The bill prevent state legislatures from unilaterally making changes to voting procedures, which they’ve been able to do since the 2013 ruling. In states where voting rights activists were successful in boosting the turnout of voters of color, proposals already exist to have sweeping roll backs of expanded voting rights that many states reluctantly introduced because of the pandemic.  Such legislation has appeared in Texas and Geo...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Many are using debunked claims of election fraud as justification for changes. • 19 min read What’s at stake in Georgia Senate runoffs The Jan. 5 runoffs will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate and will be key to the early success of Joe Biden’s presidency.Bloomberg via Getty Images After the president's and his allies’ failed attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in courtrooms and statehouses across the battleground states, state legislatures are now setting their ...

Texas Doubles Time on Voter Fraud Cases With Few Results Attorney General Ken Paxton and his team spent more than 22,000 staff hours on voter fraud cases this year but only ended up resolving 16 of them, all of which were due to false addresses. Taylor Goldenstein, Houston Chronicle   |   December 22, 2020   |  Analysis (TNS) — The Texas Attorney General's office spent nearly twice as much time working on voter fraud cases this year as it did in 2018 — logging more than 22,000 staff hours — yet resolved just 16 prosecutions, half as...

Ken Paxton's beefed-up 2020 voter fraud unit closed 16 minor cases, all in Harris County FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this June 28, 2020 file photo, Texas' Attorney General Ken Paxton waits on the flight line for the arrival of Vice President Mike Pence at Love Field in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)Tony Gutierrez, STF / Associated Press The Texas attorney general’s office spent nearly twice as much time working on voter fraud cases this year as it did in 2018 — logging more than 22,000 staff hours — yet resolved just 16 prosecutions, half as many as two years ago, records sh...