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Paffrath believes he's the only legitimate backup plan for California Democrats.

Every day, and we have to put our hands up every day. one thing governor greg abbott underestimates is the power of the people. the power will always be in the people, and we are standing here today to show him what democracy looks like. >> cnn's diane gallagher is in austin, texas. so, diane, what's different about this bill than the bill that democrats stopped during the regular session? >> reporter: so there are a lot of similarities, but at the core of things, victor, they're starting all over again. at this point today there were two different bills that were introduced. one in the house,...

To the polls program. is this now acceptable to you that they've struck those two thin things? >> it's still not acceptable. i think there's so much we have to go through and digest and make sure we're not restricting any type of voting or access to voting for our communities. and i think that's the biggest issue. so there's still so much to digest about this new legislation coming out. of course we know during session it was horrible especially when they were trying to ram a 200-page amended bill down our throats that hadn't been looked at by either party. so i think when we're looking at wha...

The floor and denying quorum back at the end of the regular session. if you take it house bill, for example, we're talking about banning 24-hour drive-thru voting, adding new crime to the process. for example, making it a felony to send out an unsolicited ballot application and makes more voter i.d. necessities for voting by mail. there's some key differences, though, from both of the bills that were introduced this new special session. and they don't include some of the more controversial measures that were jammed into that sb7 last session like banning sunday morning voting. and they also do...

One of the top authors of the bill now denounces the measures related to overturning...