your article is full of extra words to dance around the subject matter.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:45 pmExplained here:youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:32 pm Can anyone please share succinctly, why this Texas voting bill is a bad thing? To me, all it seems to do is provide standards for a higher security protection of the voting process? Where does it even begin to come close to Jim Crow shenanigan's as Biden claims?
Each of the bullet points listed here: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/20 ... 953443002/
https://www.vox.com/2021/7/13/22573680/ ... ion-quorum
Seems to me that it's clear that voters of color, primarily working class such, used overnight voting and drive thru voting disproportionately to white voters in rural, less dense areas. Texas limits the number of voting places and machines in heavily populated areas, typically densely Dem, which causes long lines waiting to vote...which is much harder to deal with if you are poor or working class...overnight and drive thru made it easier to actually vote. It was pandemic inspired, but scared the bejesus out of the GOP as it really did enable more voters to vote...legally. Jim Crow voter suppression laws involved all sorts of ways intended to make voting harder, to discourage black and brown voters from having access or risking repercussions...simply from voting.
But partisan poll watchers is probably the most directly akin to the bad old days of Jim Crow voter intimidation. What they're demanding is the right for the partisan poll watcher to come up directly to voters, identify them (as a partisan), challenge them, watch them vote up close. Jim Crow worked...voters were intimidated.
There's really no question that Texas has existing laws that are intentionally favoring votes from likely GOP areas and voters, and suppressing likely Dem voters...and these are intended to ratchet that up.
Try this one on for size: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/lo ... g/2680154/
Where does it say partisan poll watchers can engage with voters?
So the argument is black voters like to vote at night....does requesting a mail in ballot make voting harder or easier for any race? Last I checked even ggait praises Colorado's mail in procedures. All Texas asks....is prove you are who you say you are. I bet those minority democrats showed thier ID to fly to DC.
The arguments brought forth seem to make it much safer, especially with video recording....you know, like that thing all police now wear for "documenting purposes"...I'm sure that'll be seen as racists any day now as well.