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State Rep. Rafael Anchía Went Viral With a History Lesson About Voting Rights
Dallas elected legislators played a big role in getting changes made to the Republican-led plan to introduce new voting restrictions.
By Alex Macon
Published in
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May 12, 2021
2:53 pm
It’s rare that a history lesson goes viral. But state Rep. Rafael Anchía (D-Dallas) managed just that in a clip recorded last week on the floor of the Texas Legislature, where lawmakers were debating a bill that would introduce new voting restrictions to the state.
Anchía, who’s already done some high-quality grilling this legislative session, was questioning Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-Deer Park), the author of the bill, about its inclusion of the phrase “purity of the ballot box,” language that had previously been used after the Civil War and again during the Jim Crow era to discriminate against Black voters.
Dallas Polling Sites Were Down for Hours on Election Day We’ll never know, I suspect, how many people literally did not get to vote in this election that wanted to, Mayor Eric Johnson said.
By Alex Macon
Published in
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May 12, 2021
5:58 pm
Snafus downed
at least 10 9 polling locations for as many as four hours during Dallas City Council elections on May 1, showing that there were more Election Day problems than had been previously reported. [
Update: 9 polling locations were temporarily closed, with other issues reported at two others; the original headline of this story has been changed to reflect that.] This emerged Wednesday as City Council members grilled Michael Scarpello, the county’s election administrator. They further decided in a 11-3 vote (one council member was absent) to tell off the Dallas County Elections Department by refusing to pay it to run the upcoming runoffs scheduled for June 5.
Polling Hiccups, the Mayor’s Bad Bets, and More to Know From Dallas Elections
Three incumbents head to the runoff, the mayor s preferred candidates underperformed, and there were more places to vote than ever before. Let s talk about the election.
By Matt Goodman
Published in
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May 3, 2021
10:23 am
At about 1 a.m. Sunday morning, we learned the results of a typically low-energy municipal election. Fewer than 10 percent of Dallas County voters cast their ballots, which is pretty close to what we saw in May 2019. Of course, the mayor wasn’t on the ballot this time, so maybe this is a small win. In 2018, the national rate for municipal elections was 27 percent, according to the
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