I tried the drive through the afternoon of an ice storm It was closed due to weather. Little did I know it foreshadowed the February 2021 winter storm where the Texas Legislator failed citizens by the millions.
Should Senator Hughes bill pass poll watchers can video voters needing assistance. Congressman August Pfluger wants my Social Security number on my ballot. Will the poll watcher be able to obtain my SSN via video should Pfluger's bill get enacted?
Update 7-11-21: Yahoo reported:
What Abbott is looking to achieve, among other things, is a ban on 24-hour and drive-through voting, implementing strict new voter ID requirements for mail-in ballots, a prohibition on absentee ballot applications from being sent out proactively, and an expansion of the authority granted to partisan poll watchers.
But in the Senate hearing on Saturday, GOP Sen. Bryan Hughes, committee chair and author of S.B. 1, admitted to Sen. Royce West, a Democrat, that Republicans had not done, nor were they aware of, any studies analyzing the disparate impacts of voting restrictions on people of color.
The exchange followed an admission by Hughes to Democratic State Sen. José Menéndez that he hadn’t spoken with any outside advocacy groups such as the NAACP about how the bill could affect minority voters. There are “some minorities who are Republicans who support the bill,” Hughes noted in response to a subsequent question.
As for his proposed ban on 24-hour voting, Hughes said he had not heard of any fraud cases related to the practice during the 2020 presidential election.
Update 9-23-21: Exactly how the Texas legislature restricted voting access in their law. The key is being not customer oriented.
Update 10-24-21: An ASU government professor missed that Tom Green County had drive up voting when he summed up changes made by Hughes and company.
Update 2-2-22: To stamp out the canard of voter fraud Texas banned the mailing of vote-by-mail applications by local election officials. It did not bar Red Team incumbents from that very practice. Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick did just that using official looking letterhead as did Rep. Dan Crenshaw. I believe they have pointed out the speck in the other's eye while ignoring the log in their own.
Update 2-3-22: The Guardian reported "Officials in Texas are rejecting thousands of mail-in ballots ahead of the first 2022 midterm primary votes next month, raising serious alarm that a new Republican law is going to disenfranchise droves of eligible voters.
