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Bill filing deadline: Republicans file election legislation, Democrats call voter suppression


Bill filing deadline: Republicans file election legislation that Democrats call voter suppression
With Friday marking the bill filing deadline, lawmakers filed a flurry of election and voter bills. Democrats say it’s just the latest attempt at voter suppression.
The 87th Texas Legislature is called into session at the Texas Capitol building in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. (Lynda M. González/The Dallas Morning News)(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
AUSTIN – Friday marked the bill filing deadline in the 87th Texas Legislature, and with it came several pieces of last-minute election reform legislation from Republicans that Democrats contend are nothing more than a package of voting restrictions aimed at voter suppression. ....

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Republican Lawmakers File 7 'Election Integrity' Bills That Could Limit Voter Access – Houston Public Media


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Republican lawmakers have filed seven bills that would change voting access in Texas, including a law to limit the hours counties can keep ballot locations open during the state’s early voting period.
State Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, who authored the bills, argued they re necessary to force local governments to comply with the Texas Elections Code.
“The seven bills themselves really represent my ideas to make sure that we have integrity in the voter roll as well as in the election system,” Bettencourt said.
One of the proposed laws filed Friday, SB 1115, would require all counties to observe the same early voting hours and days, prohibiting counties from expanding their hours as Harris County did last fall with the state’s first-ever 24-hour voting sites. ....

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