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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Republican lawmakers were forced to admit they have not seen any evidence of widespread election fraud during a Saturday showdown in the Texas State House over restrictive “election integrity” measures being taken up in a special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott.
The move was decried by Democrats as little more than an attempt to suppress the minority vote. Experts say that unnecessary election security measures like the ones being proposed in Texas actually do nothing to make elections more secure and disproportionately disenfranchise people of color. Large numbers of opponents showed up to officially register their objection to the GOP initiative, including former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX).
One of them, a 17-year-old San Antonian named Kyle Huang, began his testimony by saying he was there representing “myself, and I guess my fellow citizens.“I just graduated high school and I find myself here today, defending the right to vote, a right that I myself cannot yet exercise, but a right that is under attack,” Huang told the Senate Committee on State Affairs. “When I phonebanked last year, I spoke with many senior citizens who relied on mail-in voting because of a lack of access to transportation and technology. I remember talking to an elderly man who did not have internet access, and he explained that he got a mail-in ballot application because the county sent him one.”
However, Huang continued, if the county hadn’t sent out the ballot on its own, the man wouldn’t have been able to request a ballot online. He also wouldn’t have known who to call to inquire about requesting one, said Huang.
“After the call, I realized that if the county hadn’t been proactive about sending out mail-in ballot applications, this man wouldn’t have been able to exercise his fundamental right to vote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-bs-during-farcical-texas-showdown/ar-AAM0gqj
The move was decried by Democrats as little more than an attempt to suppress the minority vote. Experts say that unnecessary election security measures like the ones being proposed in Texas actually do nothing to make elections more secure and disproportionately disenfranchise people of color. Large numbers of opponents showed up to officially register their objection to the GOP initiative, including former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX).
One of them, a 17-year-old San Antonian named Kyle Huang, began his testimony by saying he was there representing “myself, and I guess my fellow citizens.“I just graduated high school and I find myself here today, defending the right to vote, a right that I myself cannot yet exercise, but a right that is under attack,” Huang told the Senate Committee on State Affairs. “When I phonebanked last year, I spoke with many senior citizens who relied on mail-in voting because of a lack of access to transportation and technology. I remember talking to an elderly man who did not have internet access, and he explained that he got a mail-in ballot application because the county sent him one.”
However, Huang continued, if the county hadn’t sent out the ballot on its own, the man wouldn’t have been able to request a ballot online. He also wouldn’t have known who to call to inquire about requesting one, said Huang.
“After the call, I realized that if the county hadn’t been proactive about sending out mail-in ballot applications, this man wouldn’t have been able to exercise his fundamental right to vote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-bs-during-farcical-texas-showdown/ar-AAM0gqj