And there it is.
State Sen Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, with the question driving this whole election bill debate.
“Let’s talk about the elephant in the room,” she asks. “This is about Harris county.”
Harris is home to Houston and has gone cobalt blue in last four years.
State Sen Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, with the question driving this whole election bill debate.
“Let’s talk about the elephant in the room,” she asks. “This is about Harris county.”
Harris is home to Houston and has gone cobalt blue in last four years.
State Sen Bryan Hughes acknowledges it was Harris County that started drive-thru voting, created 24 hour voting centers and tried to mass mail absentee ballot applications.
Under Hughes bill, drive-thru voting, voting after 9 pm or unsolicited mailing of absentee ballot applications would all be against the law in Texas
Ironically they are talking about banning late night voting at 1:51 a.m.
Alvarado makes case that 24 hour voting and drive thru voting was used disproportionately by Black and Latino voters. She says what Hughes is doing could violate the Voting Rights act of 1965 because it target Harris and a form of voting Black and Latino voters used
It’s 4:05 am and the debate over the Texas elections bill continues. State Sen Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, slams Harris County for how they conducted elections. He says they had 1.5% error rate on drive-thru voting — way too high
“Drive-thru voting didn’t work,” he says
“Drive-thru voting didn’t work,” he says
Instead of celebrating Harris County - home to Houston - Bettencourt said Senate needs to recognize their “record of failure.”
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