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April 19, 2021 at 1:33 p.m. In drafting SB 7, Senate Republicans made clear some of its proposed restrictions are meant as a response to voting initiatives implemented by Harris County for the 2020 election, but the proposed new restrictions would apply across the state. Regulating voting hours Currently, counties with a population of 100,000 or more must provide at least 12 hours of early voting each weekday of the last week of early voting. In Texas, the early voting period usually runs for the two weeks ahead of Election Day. Hours for that last week of early voting are usually ...

Here's how Texas elections would change under the bill Republicans are pushing Chron 1 hr ago © Ken Herman, TNS Like Republicans across the country, Texas lawmakers are pushing to enact sweeping changes to state voting laws, including new restrictions on how and when voters can cast ballots. At the forefront of that campaign is Senate Bill 7, a legislative priority for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick that has already passed the Senate and awaits action in the House. The wide-ranging legislation touches almost the entire voting process, taking particular aim at narrowing the latitude local officia...

Fact-checking Texas Republican's claims around state voting laws CNN 4 hrs ago By Holmes Lybrand, Tara Subramaniam and Samara Lipman, CNN © JUSTIN HAMEL/AFP/AFP via Getty Images TOPSHOT - A woman casts her ballot in the 2020 general election inside the Basset Place Mall in El Paso, Texas on November 3, 2020. - The US started voting Tuesday in an election amounting to a referendum on Donald Trump's uniquely brash and bruising presidency, which Democratic opponent and frontrunner Joe Biden urged Americans to end to restore "our democracy." (Photo by Justin HAMEL / AFP) (Pho...

Fact-checking Texas Republicans’ attacks on Harris County voting procedures The Texas Senate passed new voting legislation on April 1. As the bill goes through the state House, corporations like Dell Technologies and American Airlines — both based in Texas — have started advocating against it, arguing that it restricts voter access. To justify many of the changes in the law, Texas Republicans are pointing to 2020 election practices in Harris County, which includes Houston, arguing that the county went far beyond the Texas Election Code in allowing drive-thru voting, sending out mail-in ...

Grieder: GOP’s lurch to belligerent populism should have voters on edge By Erica Grieder, Staff writer There was a time when business leaders held real, and sometimes critical, influence over the Republican Party of Texas. It would be hard to argue that time is over, given that state leaders continue to treat the private sector with mysterious deference when it comes to, for example, reforming the state’s power sector in the wake of the winter freeze that left millions without electricity and nearly 200 Texans dead. But the relationship between the Texas GOP and the state�...