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Ed lavandera is "outfront". >> reporter: last year 127,000 people cast their ballots in a drive-through in harris county. it was an idea born out of the pandemic and celebrated as a secure way of making voting safe and conveniconvenient. >> you're more likely to be struck by lightning than experience mail ballot fraud. plain and simple. >> i election integrity is now law. >> reporter: drive-through voting is banned in texas. it's one of the extensive measures included in a controversial election bill signed by republican greg abbott. critics call it one of the most restrictive election laws in...

Elections. cnn correspondent ed lavendera joining us from dallas with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. well the governor here in texas is headed to the politically friendly confines of east texas. it is notable that he's not signing this bill in the major cities like houston or dallas. which essentially many of the provisions in this election bill is targing some of the measures that are rolled out in those counties in the most recent election. so the governor signing that controversial bill out in the city of tyler, in east texas later this morning. and here are some of t...

African in so many ways, including voting. is it time that it be treated the way that apartheid and south africa was treated with boycotts? what do you think of that as mayor of austin? >> as mayor of a city right now, we need help and support. we'd much rather people focus on bringing resources to organizations in our state that are fighting this, helping the cities and the communities put up a defense to this. that's really the help that we need. the urban areas in our city have opposed this. the election bill is directed at houston in no small measure, certainly austin is the focus of much ...

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On voting legislation. >> the torch is being passed to us, and it's time for our generation to wake up the world so we can stop talking about the dream and start living the dream! >> reporter: tonight, a new generation marching the streets of washington. this time with an urgent call for congress to stop what they call the assault on voter access to the ballot box. >> we are narrowly focused on the outcome -- not the process, not the performance of events, but the outcome, and the outcome is adopting voting right protections. >> reporter: the texas house of representatives passing sb-1, its el...