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They looked at what went right and they decided to ban what went right. >> the issue is that countless republican voters don't believe things went right in 2020. thanks to the big lie. >> frankly, we did win this election. >> you really can't blame these voters. they've been bamboozled into thinking fraud is a major problem so of course these legislators act. >> georgia's republican house speaker told me as much. >> you said a lot of people in georgia don't think that the election was free and fair. you didn't say you don't think the election was free and fair. >> well, uh, what i think someti...

Election. >> you really can't blame these voters. they've been bamboozled into thinking fraud is a major problem so of course these legislators act. >> georgia's republican house speaker told me as much. >> you said a lot of people in georgia don't think that the election was free and fair. you didn't say you don't think the election was free and fair. >> well, uh, what i think sometimes is not altogether important. >> why not? >> well, we're a representative body here in the house. and i listen to my constituents. >> in texas, republican state representative travis clarty helped write a new r...

Election judge. and it's the election judge who could be charged with a crime and not a proud boy. why do -- >> just to be clear, you're saying, hypothetically, if a proud boy was a partisan poll watcher, that would have just been a warning and the poll watcher wouldn't have been facing any criminal repe repercussions? that's what you're saying? >> i think we need to identify what a partisan poll watcher looks like. and a lot of them look like the folks that stormed the u.s. capitol on january oft6th and t have no business monitoring elections anywhere in the world. >> and we have no evidence ...

>> i can and i will continue to call special session after special session after special session, all the way up until the election next year. >> abbott is also threatening to arrest the democrats if they step foot back in the state and drag them to the state capitol for a vote, though it's not clear he has that authority. ultimately, texas democrats do lack the votes to block this controversial bill. it would reign in things like drive-through and 24-hour voting, further tighten the rules for voting by mail, and bolster access for partisan poll watchers. by fleeing to washington, texas democr...

Horrendous policy, texas republicans have declared it a total mystery, who inserted what they now call their words, horrendous policy in their own election law legislation that democrats managed to block by staing a walkout of the texas house of representatives and denying a quorum necessary to pass the bill. the houston chronicle reports that texas state representative travis clarty and brian hughes now claim they have absolutely no idea how the provisions about overturning elections ever got added to their bill. travis clarty is now saying that making it easy for texas judges to overturn ele...