The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled yesterday that portions of Texas Senate Bill 1, adopted in September 2021, violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court found that parts of S.B. 1 require officials to reject mail-in ballot applications and mail-in ballots based on errors or omissions that are not material in determining whether voters are qualified under Texas law to vote or cast a mail ballot.
Now the lege just has to pass another bullshit voter suppression law that will take years to make its way through the courts, but will disenfranchise countless voters until it gets struck down in an endless game of ‘voter whack-a-mole.’
The Republicans don’t want people voting, because their electoral prospects improve when fewer people do it.
There was a thing where Texas and other states who were disenfranchising voters had to get permission to change their voting rules, but then SCOTUS removed it. Since then, Texas has constantly made more and more attempts to auppress showing they needed that permission requirement.
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Unfortunately, the SCOTUS has severely limited any federal oversight for this kind of thing. It used to be that (due to the voting rights act) any major changes to election law had to go through the courts to stop any systemic suppression, but the Roberts Court declared that racism is over and shuttered that legal avenue.
Unfortunately, voter suppression is perfectly legal in this country in all but a few select cases.
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Yeah but some internet dude said both parties same and her emails