Voting rights advocates are sounding the alarm over a slew of restrictive voting bills making their way through the Texas Legislature.
The Lone Star State tops the list when it comes to restrictive voting bills, along with states like Georgia and Florida, Albright said. Texas is currently “doubling down” on ways to limit the vote, he added.allow appointed election marshals to investigate purported voting violationsAlbright compared the idea of the deputizing of an “election police force” to tactics seen during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ‘60s.
Several bills are on the radar of Emily Eby French, a voting rights staff attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project. House Bill 1243, by state Rep. Cole Hefner, for instance, would increase the criminal penalty for illegal voting and is up for a hearing on Thursday., a Mineola Republican, would also spike the penalty for illegal voting to a second-degree felony. The main elections bill in 2021 featured a last-minute amendment that made illegal voting a misdemeanor instead of a felony. Lt.
“Republicans are trying to manipulate the outcome of elections by making it harder for certain people to vote, usually aiming at Black and brown Texans,” he said. “That seems like a very clear pattern to me.” One difference between this session and the last is the delivery of some of these bills, Gutierrez noted. In 2021, advocates were able to lock arms and mobilize against an omnibus bill, killing it during the regular session before it got “rammed through” during a subsequent special session.
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