The case ricocheted through federal courts for nearly seven years and over several elections, with federal judges ruling that Texas lawmakers discriminated against Hispanic and Black voters when crafting one of the nation’s strictest voter ID laws.
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Texas Legislature 2021
Analysis: The partisan debate over voting laws is a prologue to redistricting
The summer fight over voting and election law has been fierce. It may well be a prologue to a bigger battle just ahead: redrawing the state’s political maps.
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There is no “election integrity” without accessibility
In their quest to restore trust in our elections, the Legislature must protect, not delete, accommodations for voters with disabilities
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
Texas voters sharply divided on the fairness of elections and what to do about it, UT/TT Poll finds
The findings are echoed in the halls of the Texas Legislature, where lawmakers are wrestling with proposed restrictions to the state’s voting laws amid unsubstantiated questions about voter fraud and the integrity of the process.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Analyzing 2020: Shock the vote
We’ve selected some columns from 2020 on voting and elections.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Five things to watch on Election Day 2020 in Texas
Texas is playing host to a series of high-stakes contests up and down the ballot, from a presidential race that could be the state’s closest in a generation to the fight for the Texas House majority.
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Texas 2020 Elections
He had a state-issued voter ID and says he still got flagged casting his ballot
Mike Wright says nothing made sense, and even the poll workers couldn’t explain it. But like millions of Texas voters this cycle, Wright says he was determined to cast his ballot. Listen in the weekend edition of The Brief podcast.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Texas voters have serious concerns about voting and the 2020 election, UT/TT Poll finds
Only a minority of Texas voters from both parties say they’re ready to trust the results of the 2020 election for president, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Voters, voting rights groups sue Gov. Greg Abbott over order to close ballot drop-off locations
In two separate federal lawsuits filed on behalf of older voters, groups including the Texas and National Leagues of United Latin American Citizens, the League of Women Voters of Texas and the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans asked that the federal courts overturn the governor’s order, which forced Travis and Harris counties — two of the state’s most important Democratic strongholds — to shutter a number of drop-off sites they had already opened this week.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Analysis: Keep calm and vote on
Political people in high places are sowing doubt about voting and elections, making our 200-year-old system seem fraught with problems and even crime. Vote anyway.