Texas GOP Is Just Anti- Democracy.
Texas continues trying to enact anti democratic voting measures meant to restrict people from voting. (Washington Post)
“Texas GOP lawmakers introduced on Friday a wave of anti-voting measures. One proposal would force counties to close polling places at 7 p.m., making it harder for shift workers to vote. Most Texas voters already may not vote by mail; a Republican plan would require those claiming disability as a reason to cast an absentee ballot to provide onerous levels of written documentation to prove they qualify. Another proposal would bar counties from distributing absentee ballot applications unless voters formally request them.
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The fewer people that vote, the less strong out Democracy ends up being. The GOP in Texas and elsewhere don’t care about way it affects our Democracy as a whole, just as long as the people they want to casts ballots end up being the majority of the people casting ballots. The restrictions they are trying to put into law greatly affect the states’s non white disenfranchised populations and poor people who already vote in smaller numbers. America needs a comprehensive voting rights overhaul that encourages MORE people to get out and cast their vote, certainly not fewer.
