[Doug64]

At least 41 of the Republican Senators should announce that they are following the example of the Texas Democrats and leaving Washington, D.C., and will return to Washington only when the state legislators return to Texas. The Senate requires at least 51 Senators be present for a quorum, and even if a quorum is present at least 60 are required for any votes involving cloture.

[Skynet]

CNN host said in Delaware Joe Bidens state it is harder to vote then in Texas! Is this true?

[Doug64]

CNN host said in Delaware Joe Bidens state it is harder to vote then in Texas! Is this true?

Here’s Delaware’s voting laws per Ballotpedia, and here’s the voting laws for Texas.

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CNN host said in Delaware Joe Bidens state it is harder to vote then in Texas! Is this true?

"By the Brennan Center for Justice’s count, state lawmakers have introduced more than 360 voter suppression bills across the nation, and the aim seems clear: Despite rhetorical nods to protecting “election integrity,” it’s a collective Republican effort to suppress the vote in future elections. As Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic minority leader of the Georgia state House explains, these bills “are responding to the big lie, to the disproven, discredited and, sadly, the blood-spilled lie of voter fraud.”

In Texas, Republican lawmakers have pushed a bill that would change which judges hear certain election-related cases. The measure would disqualify judges from hearing cases involving an election official in their own geographic area — a move that appears targeted at shutting out judges elected in Democratic-leaning parts of the state. The bill gives the region’s presiding judge, who is appointed by the state’s Republican governor, the power to pick a judge to hear these challenges instead."
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/lawmakers-are-targeting-courts-could-shoot-down-voter-suppression-laws?ms=gad_voter%20suppression_526746628492_8628877148_124163811540&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxpf5-bry8QIVl-azCh1AowYcEAAYASAAEgJpXPD_BwE

"In Congress, Democrats are prioritizing legislation called the For the People Act, or H.R. 1, which seeks to curb GOP efforts to suppress voting. The bill would set national standards to loosen photo-ID requirements, guarantee early-voting and voting-by-mail options, and mandate automatic and same-day registration. Although Democrats have focused on how the bill would rein in red states, H.R. 1 would hit some blue states just as hard, if not harder."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/democrats-voting-rights-contradiction/618599/

But it would hit them both...

The reality is that there is a tidal wave of racist legislation, and that ain't happening in Delaware. If they succeed, the American Republic will die. Hard to have a democracy and a dictator, at the same time...

[Rancid]

The latest version of the bill has dropped the provisions that allow the state legislature to overturn elections. They also dropped the limiting of voting hours on Sundays.

Positive developments indeed.

It is ridiculous that the legislature wants to give themselves the power to overthrow the will of the people. It's even more ridiculous we have people in Texas that think that's a good idea.

[Istanbuller]

Anti-Trump people are dumb as fuck. They oppose id requirement for voting, but okay with if requirement for using social media.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-view- ... rific-idea

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Anti-Trump people are dumb as fuck. They oppose id requirement for voting, but okay with if requirement for using social media. :

We have a system that catches cheaters already.

A while back a Texas asst. Attorney General offered a big crash prize for anyone with proof of voter fraud. The asst. Attorney General in Penn sent him the details of 2 cases. In both cases the perp was Republican.

Texas didn't keep it's promise.

I imagine you're doing this for fun and profit, but you really ought to look into a topic, if you are going to make pronouncements about it.

[Doug64]

Heritage Foundation has a handy website tracking cases of voter fraud.

[Doug64]

Something people might have missed in all the Afghanistan excitement, the Texas Democrats' circus clown act is over.

Texas Democrats return, end 38-day holdout over voting bill

A standoff in Texas over new voting restrictions that gridlocked the state Capitol for 38 consecutive days ended Thursday when some Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C., dropped their holdout, paving the way for Republicans to resume pushing an elections overhaul.

It abruptly and messily drew to a close one of the few - and lengthiest - quorum breaks in modern Texas history. Instead of a unified and celebratory return by Democrats, some members fumed and lashed out at their colleagues over what they criticized as breaking ranks.

Most of the more than 50 Democrats who bolted for the nation’s capital in July continue to stay away from the Texas Capitol, although Republican House Speaker Dade Phelan said enough were there to achieve a quorum, which in the House is 100 present legislators. Growing impatience among Republicans had led to escalating threats that missing lawmakers could face arrest, but officers never appeared to do more than leaving warrants at Democrats’ homes.

The few who returned to the Texas House defended their decision, saying they had successfully pushed Congress on voting rights legislation and pointing to the growing urgency of surging COVID-19 caseloads in Texas.

“Now, we continue the fight on the House Floor,” Democrats Garnet Coleman, Ana Hernandez and Armando Walle said in a joint statement.

Others did not hide their frustration.

“We were literally on caucus calls for 2 hours this morning and none of the defecting Democrats mentioned they were planning on helping the Republicans pass voter suppression bills. Guess what the other defecting Democrats have accomplished by going back-NOTHING!” Democratic state Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos tweeted.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott now has an opening to divert attention back to the Capitol and away from criticism and defiance by Texas’ largest cities and school districts over his handling of worsening COVID-19 numbers.

Abbott this week tested positive for COVID-19, although his office had said the 63-year-old governor has no symptoms.

It leaves Democrats much in the same position as when the holdout started: unable to permanently stop the GOP-controlled Legislature from putting new limits and rules over how more that 16 million registered voters can cast a ballot. And federal voting rights protections that Texas Democrats lobbied for while in Washington still face long odds of getting around GOP opposition in Congress.

Months of protests had put Texas Democrats at the center of a new national battle over voting. Republicans around the U.S. have rushed to enact new voting restrictions in response to former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

Republicans are now back on a path to pass new elections laws in Texas before the current special session ends on Sept. 5.