Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs into law a bill with a host of restrictive voting measures, some of which take aim at mail-in ballots
The restrictive voting measure adds Texas to the list of Republican-controlled states that have seized on former President Donald Trump's lies about widespread voter fraud and clamped down on access to the ballot box this year. Already, Florida, Georgia and other states have enacted new voting laws.
America's long history of Black voter suppressionInstead, they are looking to Congress for action. In Texas, state House Democratic lawmakers left Austin and traveled to Washington to urge Congress to approve new voter protections. However, measures to expand voting rights are stalled on Capitol Hill with Senate Democrats unable to break the 60-vote filibuster threshold -- and unable to eliminate the filibuster, due to opposition within the party.
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