Groups Ask Texas Lawmakers To Allow Virtual Public Input For Controversial Voting Bills
Ashley Lopez, KUT 90.5 | Published on 3/23/2021
Voting rights groups in Texas are asking state lawmakers to accommodate remote public input as they consider sweeping voting legislation this week.
On Monday, a coalition of advocacy groups — including Disability Rights Texas, League of Women Voters of Texas, Texas NAACP, Mi Familia Vota, MOVE Texas Action Fund and the Texas Civil Rights Project — sent a letter to leaders of the House elections committee ahead of a hearing Thursday for House Bill 6.
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the letter, the groups say “HB 6 is the most complicated and consequential piece of election legislation that the Committee has considered in many years, making it essential that the Committee hear directly from representatives of the groups most affected by the bill: voters with disabilities, voters of color, Texans who regularly use vote by mail,” which includes people with medical conditions.
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