Members of the Texas Impact, the nearly 50-year-old statewide advocacy organization representing Texans of faith working for justice, the League of Women Voters of Texas, the NAACP of Texas, and LULAC of Texas, are hosting a “Let My People Vote” Rally for Voting Rights at the Texas Capitol on Monday.
Texas Impact anticipates at least 400 rally attendees will gather, calling on state lawmakers to not place proposed restrictions on voting.
The group rejects restrictive measures and wants state leaders to forge a compromise, focus on common-sense modernization of Texas’ election laws that will improve voter access and increase transparency in all Texas elections.
Texans representing approximately 100 Texas House districts and 25 Senate districts are expected to be in attendance and, post rally, will visit lawmakers’ offices to discuss the need to find common ground on voting reform.
The rally is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.
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