Texas Democrats call on Congress to protect voting rights

[BidenPresident]

After taking their stand, the state Democrats said they want allies elsewhere in the country to seize the moment and show the same kind of resolve — particularly in Washington, where Democrats control the presidency and both chambers of Congress yet are struggling to pave the way for two major pieces of voting legislation: the For the People Act, a sprawling overhaul of federal elections, ethics and campaign finance law; and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would reauthorize the seminal 1965 Voting Rights Act by giving the federal government fresh power to police jurisdictions with histories of racial discrimination in voting administration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...f4b_story.html

[ExpressLane]

After taking their stand, the state Democrats said they want allies elsewhere in the country to seize the moment and show the same kind of resolve — particularly in Washington, where Democrats control the presidency and both chambers of Congress yet are struggling to pave the way for two major pieces of voting legislation: the For the People Act, a sprawling overhaul of federal elections, ethics and campaign finance law; and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would reauthorize the seminal 1965 Voting Rights Act by giving the federal government fresh power to police jurisdictions with histories of racial discrimination in voting administration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...f4b_story.html

Washington needs to stay out of Texas voting rights. The Constitution gives the right to conduct elections solely to the Texas legislature.

[BidenPresident]

Washington needs to stay out of Texas voting rights. The Constitution gives the right to conduction elections solely to the Texas legislature.

No, Constitution says nothing about states being allowed to deny voting rights.

[ExpressLane]

No, Constitution says nothing about states being allowed to deny voting rights.

What voting right is being denied???

[BidenPresident]

What voting right is being denied???

"The measure would have made it illegal for election officials to send out unsolicited mail ballot applications, empowered partisan poll watchers and banned practices such as drop boxes and drive-through voting that were popularized in the heavily Democratic Harris County last year. It would have barred early voting hours on Sunday mornings, potentially hampering get-out-the-vote programs aimed at Black churchgoers."

[NiftyNiblick]

Republican "leadership" is at this point fully aware that their party is toast unless democratic elections are abolished.

The destruction of democracy via vote suppression is now quintessentially imperative for their survival.
They will make every effort to destroy the republic in order to preserve their morally repugnant party.

At this point, any TOLERANCE, much less support, for the Republican Party should be regarded as a capital crime.
We've reached the point in America today where if you're not a progressive liberal,
you must look up, from a moral perspective, to terrorists and child molesters.
Your existence is at this point an affront to the concept of decency itself.

If these red state legislatures get away with their insurrection against the republic, those states must be summarily expelled from the union.
Many of them wished to secede anyway.

[ExpressLane]

"The measure would have made it illegal for election officials to send out unsolicited mail ballot applications, empowered partisan poll watchers and banned practices such as drop boxes and drive-through voting that were popularized in the heavily Democratic Harris County last year. It would have barred early voting hours on Sunday mornings, potentially hampering get-out-the-vote programs aimed at Black churchgoers."

In Texas if you need a mail in ballot you fill out a request and send it in and they will send you a mail in ballot. So no one is denied anything. That prevents the blanket sending out of unsolicited ballots that anyone could vote including people who aren't the voter it was sent to. Texas still has drop boxes one per county or you can just mail in your vote. There is no need for "drive through" voting and its an unneeded use of election officials. You can just drive by a Post Office Box Texas has two weeks of early voting and that is plenty of time to go vote. Harris county did not have the legal right to change voter laws. The bottom line is anyone that is over 18 and registered to vote can vote. No one is being denied anything. The state legislature has the constitutional right to set election laws and the Federal Government needs to STFU.

[no worries]

Washington needs to stay out of Texas voting rights. The Constitution gives the right to conduct elections solely to the Texas legislature.

Austin needs to stay out of Texas counties election boards.

"The Constitution gives the right to conduct elections solely to the Texas legislature".

You're FOS.

14th amendment.

In exercising power, the Congress may supplement the state regulations or may substitute its own[viii]. It may impose additional penalties for the violation of the state laws or provide independent sanctions. It has a general supervisory power over the whole subject.

[Grumpy]

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Texas Democrats call on Congress to protect voting rights

Yeah ... now that their paycheck is in trouble ... GOOD JOB ABBOT

[PostmodernProphet]

[B]After taking their stand, the state Democrats said they want allies elsewhere in the country to seize the moment and show the same kind of resolve

why do the demmycrats hate democracy?......

[PostmodernProphet]

No, Constitution says nothing about states being allowed to deny voting rights.

so why are Texas demmycrats looking to Washington to deny the Texas legislature's right to control Texas voting rights.......besides, from the OP it sounds like Washington demmycrats who control the president's office, and both houses of congress still can't decide what to do......

[PostmodernProphet]

"The measure would have made it illegal for election officials to send out unsolicited mail ballot applications, empowered partisan poll watchers and banned practices such as drop boxes and drive-through voting that were popularized in the heavily Democratic Harris County last year. It would have barred early voting hours on Sunday mornings, potentially hampering get-out-the-vote programs aimed at Black churchgoers."

excellent.......other states should copy that as quickly as possible......

[Wolverine]

"The measure would have made it illegal for election officials to send out unsolicited mail ballot applications, empowered partisan poll watchers and banned practices such as drop boxes and drive-through voting that were popularized in the heavily Democratic Harris County last year. It would have barred early voting hours on Sunday mornings, potentially hampering get-out-the-vote programs aimed at Black churchgoers."

Liar it would not have impeded any legal citizen from voting!

The Texas legislation in no way, shape or form curbs any U.S. citizen’s “voting rights.” Every qualified adult would be free to cast one vote in a state’s election. That has not stopped the U.S. media from engaging in a massive disinformation campaign that such legislation as Texas’s and Georgia’s are “restrictive.” They are “restrictive” because they restrict illegal voting, which apparently has provoked the ire of the Democratic Party and its media allies.

A major study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research based on ten-years of voting data in the United States from 2008-2018 found that voter ID laws “have no negative effect on registration or turnout, overall or for any group defined by race, gender, age, or party affiliation.” The study was conducted by Enrico Cantoni at the University of Bologna and Vincent Pons at Harvard Business School and was published in February 2019.

This international study has been supported by additional research on the issue. “This latest [NBER] study echoes the conclusion of others, including a landmark report by The Heritage Foundation in 2007 finding that voter ID laws don’t reduce voter turnout, including among African-Americans and Hispanics,” the Heritage Foundation noted. “These voters were just as likely to vote in states requiring photo identification as in those that don’t.” Even left-leaning Vox News conceded that voter ID laws don’t reduce voter turnout.

[ExpressLane]

Austin needs to stay out of Texas counties election boards.

"The Constitution gives the right to conduct elections solely to the Texas legislature".

You're FOS.

14th amendment.

In exercising power, the Congress may supplement the state regulations or may substitute its own[viii]. It may impose additional penalties for the violation of the state laws or provide independent sanctions. It has a general supervisory power over the whole subject.

The Constitution gives the right to make election laws to the Texas legislature in Austin NOT to counties in Texas.

Article I, Section 4, Clause 1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof

https://constitution.congress.gov/br...ing%20Senators.

[no worries]

The Constitution gives the right to make election laws to the Texas legislature in Austin NOT to counties in Texas.

https://constitution.congress.gov/br...ing%20Senators.

YES, the constitution did.

You got comprehension issues?

From your own link;
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law MAKE or ALTER such Regulations, except as to the Places of choosing Senators.

Under section 5 of the 14th Amendment, Congress has full power to adopt appropriate legislation to ensure that those privileges and immunities of federal citizenship are to be uniform, and not subject to abridgment by the states. As federal citizens, we should have the same right to vote in every state: the same voter ID rule, the same vote-by-mail, the same everything.