The Republican-dominated Texas parliament passed a controversial electoral law on Tuesday, August 31, accused of restricting minority voting rights.
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This law, which officially aims to make elections safer on the basis of unfounded allegations of massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election, notably prohibits voting in “drive-in»And introduced numerous restrictions on voting times and postal voting. For the detractors of the text, these restrictions mainly aim at provisions facilitating the voting of minorities, in particular African-Americans, generally more favorable to the Democrats. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement Tuesday that he would enact the law.
Leak of elected Democrats
Since January, at least 18 states have passed 30 restrictive election laws and dozens more are under review, according to think-tank Brennan Center for Justice. This process has accelerated in the Republican States against the backdrop of accusations, never demonstrated, of massive electoral fraud hammered out by Donald Trump since the presidential election of November 2020.
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Fifty elected Democrats from Texas fled this state in mid-July to prevent its House of Representatives from reaching the minimum number of elected officials to put the law to a vote (quorum). But the governor called two special sessions in a row and the Democrats gradually returned, finally achieving a quorum on August 19. The law was thus debated and adopted on Tuesday.
«Now is not the time to give up. It’s time to embrace federal voting rights“, Reacted Tuesday on Twitter the former candidate for the Democratic presidential primaries, Beto O’Rourke, in reference to a text adopted by the House of Representatives of the United States but which risks being blocked by the Republicans in the Senate .
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