TX Dems ask DOJ to monitor Texas House Elections Committee

[Winehole23]

surprise election bill

This morning, without any notice to members of the committee or our staff, Rep.Briscoe Cain, Chair of the House Committee on Elections, brought Senate Bill 7 to a vote before our Committee. We were expected to vote on the bill right then and there,without any opportunity to discern the language being presented to our committee. But,more importantly, we were expected to vote on this bill without hearing from members of the public, and from marginalized communities that this bill would disproportionately affect.

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB7/id/2350158

[Winehole23]

Senate Bill 7, as passed by the Texas Senate, would:

 Grant partisan poll watchers unfettered access to voters, and allow them to roamfreely through a polling site to intimidate voters, make it more difficult to ejectpoll watchers that cause problems (Sec 3.04, 4.01, and 4.02) as well as a right tovideotape voters while they vote (Sec. 3.08);

 Prohibit county governments from establishing methods and locations for votingthat have proven to boost participation in working-class communities andcommunities of color (Sec. 3.06, 3.07, 3.10, 3.11, 3.15, 3.20, 3.21);

 Make voting more difficult for people that utilize curbside voting by creatingnew, onerous requirements for people that drive elderly or disabled voters to the polls (Sec. 3.10) and require people assisting voters due to disability to verifyproof of the voter’s ailment or disability (Sec. 3.11); and,

 Prevent elections officials from preemptively sending mail ballot applications toeligible voters who are legally empowered to vote by mail by threatening state jailtime (Sec. 2.01).

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

[coyotes_geek]

Remember when republicans thought the notion that "we have pass a bill in order to see what's in it" was absurd?

Good times.

[Winehole23]

Remember when republicans thought the notion that "we have pass a bill in order to see what's in it" was absurd?

Good times.

The clown his behind this is the same guy who flew to PA to help Trump "fight for fair elections" after Sleepy Joe won. He's sort of a princeling of Trumpist sore loserdom.

[Winehole23]

this is Texas, yall.

no takes?

[Winehole23]

until Trump loses.

then there are five dozen frivolous election challenges.

[pgardn]

this is Texas, yall.

no takes?

Its overwhelming... take your pick.
How about Texas House and Senate getting called out when the date rape pill was used.
The late fury of the speeches was funny and sad.
These guys know what goes on with their staff and staffs from others when it comes to lobbyists but they were surprised and shocked to learn that sexual favors and flat out rape goes on. Surprised and shocked but then it got described as a long time festering sore that had to be eliminated.

We are a joke of a State. There is not enough disgust to spread on these people. Its more than the blatant road blocks for people voting with little to no evidence of the need to... except for officials in NC actually trashing a car full of ballots, for he red team. If they were legit attempts backed by evidence of fraud etc... but they are not.

[pgardn]

The clown his behind this is the same guy who flew to PA to help Trump "fight for fair elections" after Sleepy Joe won. He's sort of a princeling of Trumpist sore loserdom.

That get up just screams "I wanna be a real Texan!"

[Winehole23]

That get up just screams "I wanna be a real Texan!"

Oh he is a real Texan, he has two last names.

[pgardn]

Oh he is a real Texan, he has two last names.

Do you have a link?
These types disgust me with the I can outTexan you.

[Winehole23]

Texas trying to make Texas politics safer from voters.

Ask yourself: If Texas voters are truly clamoring loud and clear, in broad daylight, for the voting restrictions that GOP leaders tell them will protect election security, why do lawmakers insist on passing the legislation in the dead of night?


There’s a certain irony, and brazen hypocrisy, in the fact that Republican senators were perfectly comfortable voting past midnight last month on a bill that would ensure Texas voters cannot do the same at the late-night polling places Republicans are trying to ban.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opi...n-16143226.php

[Winehole23]

bad for democracy, bad for the Texas economy

[Winehole23]

SB7 up for a vote tomorrow

[Winehole23]

like the whole voter fraud fraud, it's a farrago of solutions seeking problems

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB7/id/2388778

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

what a creep

[boutons_deux]

Once (founded and fought as ) a slave state, always a slave state.

Will the Dems be able to stop the Repugs in court?

no, since cases will lose in the 5th Court, packed with extreme conservatives (eg, Priscilla Owen ),

then lose in the packed SCOTUS.

The Capitalist-financed fascism is unstoppable. The sharks know blood is in the water.

[daboom1]

le weaponized DOJ

[Winehole23]

le weaponized DOJ

not sure what you mean, can you explain how that went down?

[Winehole23]

So, the bill didn't pass the House within the cons itutionally defined 135 days, but Dan Patrick revived the bill anyway, stripping the Senate amendments. Then it went to conference committee, where it was changed without discussion or debate. Now the rules have been suspended so it can be debated and passed late at night.

It's a parade of horribles, including a voiding of election provision that makes it possible to void elections based on unsubstantiated allegations.

Silver lining: all the chicanery and setting aside of the rules and the Texas Cons ution will make SB7 more susceptible to legal and parliamentary challenges.

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

watch live now

[koriwhat]

nice echo chamber bro!