Texas Republicans’ Voters Discriminatory Bill – SB7
Style Magazine Newswire | 3/19/2021, 7:37 a.m.
A newly proposed bill – SB7 introduced in the Texas Senate this week marked as a priority from the Texas Governor Greg Abbott would ban voting measures Harris County implemented or attempted to implement in 2020.
Six of the State Affairs committee's nine member are co-sponsors of the bill.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office has spent 22,000 hours looking for voter fraud and uncovered just 16 cases of voter registration forms that contained false ad- dresses, according to The Houston Chronicle.
Texas – the second-most populous state in the US – has more than 16 million registered voters. The office has discovered 100 voter fraud cases, since 2005. GOP – sponsored bills in Texas would purge voter rolls, add more layers to voter ID laws, shrink mail-in voting periods, and shut-ter early voting and mail-in voting sites.
Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis Issues Statement on SB7
“Senate Bill 7 is a voter suppression bill, plain and simple. It pulls straight from the Jim Crow playbook, targeting communities of color to silence their voices.
“In 2020, Harris County garnered national praise for our innovative approaches, which brought out a record-breaking number of voters. We should be pushing forward with these initiatives to expand access to the ballot box, not turning back the clock to the era of poll taxes, literacy tests, and other bogus excuses to keep people from voting in the name of so-called ‘integrity.’
“We had a historically clean election in November. Governor Abbott, Republican legislators, and anyone who supports this bill is not trying to protect our democracy, they are just trying to protect their own power. This bill attacks our fundamental voting rights, and we cannot let it stand.
“I urge our residents to call their legislators and let their state representatives know that voter sup- pression belongs in the Jim Crow Era, not in 2021.”
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo Statement on SB7
“You reap what you sow. These attacks on voting rights in Texas and across the south must be stopped. Regardless, the attempts to suppress our voice will only serve to embolden us. We’ve see it in Georgia. Texans don’t like being pushed around either. We’ll remember in 2022.”
