Republican-backed Senate Bill 1 will face its biggest test yet when early voting begins Monday.
Civil rights groups sued and eventually settled with the state, which agreed to new terms limiting who could be targeted in future purges.it and incorporated the settlement agreement terms.
This fall, the state flagged about 11,000 registered voters as potential noncitizens, including about 2,900 Harris County residents. At least 2,552 voter registration records have been canceled through the process. Only a few hundred who were identified as potential noncitizens, none from Harris County, have been canceled since.SB 1 also targeted new voting practices pioneered by Harris County election officials during the pandemic to give voters safer and more convenient options.
The loss of those options in 2022 is difficult to quantify, as they were unique to the 2020 election. Voting rights advocates say any reduction in opportunities to cast a ballotGet political headlines from across the state sent directly to your inbox Republican lawmakers had said the voting options created an opening for voter fraud; allowing voting tablets in vehicles, they argued, made it difficult for poll watchers to see what was going on or easier for voters to inappropriately influence each other’s choices.Distribution of unsolicited mail ballot applications banned
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