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Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP On Thursday, less than 48-hours after Glenn Youngkin’s boat-racing of Terry McAuliffe went into the history books, Merrick Garland’s Justice Department filed a nuisance lawsuit against the State of Texas over changes to voting laws.
In response to the obvious abuses of the voting process engineered by Democrats in several states (and on several benches) to use the ‘pandemic’ as a tool to successfully cheat Joe Biden into the White House, several state legislatures have passed laws delineating clear rules and procedures for future elections. This is as it should be. The U.S. Constitution invests state legislatures with plenary authority for establishing “Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives.” Executive orders and judges have no business mucking around with established rules a few days before an election or, as in 2020, changing the rules as the election took place.
As is often the case, the Texas Legislature leads a series of commonsense reforms to ensure elections are fair and free from political shenanigans . Bans 24-hour voting
In 2020, Harris County, the home of Houston, opened eight locations for around-the-clock early voting — an option that was popular with shift workers in the racially diverse county. Counties will now be prohibited from offering 24-hour voting by a provision that limits the window in which counties can offer voting to 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The law also expands the current requirement of at least 12 hours of early voting on weekdays in the second week it’s allowed to include counties with more than 55,000 residents — up from the current 100,000 cut-off. Bans drive-thru voting
In another provision that targets Harris County, the law prohibits drive-thru voting. In 2020, as local officials sought ways to safely conduct the election amid the coronavirus pandemic, 127,000 people in the county cast their ballots at 10 drive-thru centers — including a parking garage at the Toyota Center, the home of the NBA’s Houston Rockets. New vote-by-mail ID mandates
Texans who are voting by mail — those who are over age 65, out of […]
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