Democrats in the Texas House staged a walkout late Sunday night which blocked, at least temporarily, a GOP-led bill which would enact a range of new voting restrictions
The Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. Photo: Gary Miller/Getty Images Democratic lawmakers in the Texas House staged a walkout late Sunday night which broke quorum and, at least temporarily, blocked a GOP-led bill which would enact a range of new voting restrictions in the state.
President Joe Biden called the impending legislation “wrong and un-American” in a statement Saturday. Biden said the bill was “part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year — and often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans.” On Saturday, lawmakers in Texas’ Republican-controlled House and Senate released the final version of SB 7, which combines different pieces of voting restriction legislation from each chamber.
The bill also restricts who is allowed to vote absentee, and requires mail-in voters to include either the last four digits of their Social Security number or their driver’s license number on their ballots and the backs of the return envelopes they send them in with. Per the Tribune, SB 7 also “expands the freedoms of partisan poll watchers”:
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