Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a controversial elections bill into law, banning overnight and drive through voting, ID requirements for voting by mail and criminal penalties for helping voters.ÂÂÂ
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How can this election bill be considered controversial? It is common sense – you want to vote, present your ID! Prove your identity – it is as simple as that!
It’s not controversial don’t try to twist it. Or do you want people who cheats making decisions in government ðŸ¤â€ÂðŸ¤â€Â🤯
The ONLY REASON TX HAS PASSED THIS LAW IS BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY WILL LOOSE IF ALL ELIGIBLE TX VOTERS VOTE.
If Texas Republicans were confident they would win then there would BE NO NEED TO CHANGE ELECTIONS LAWS.
How difficult is it to follow that logic.
The new slogan for the REPUBLICAN PARTY is this,
“IF YOU CAN’T WIN LEGALLY THEN CHEATâ€ÂÂ.
It means texans better have id when they go vote.. and that's about it.
Way to go Texas! Someday they might be as tough on voting law as Delaware…. Jim Eagle in Joe's backyard….. Stick it in your eye MSNBC…..
Vote him out. This man is dangerous.
This may actually backfire on Texas rethugs. There's lots of Dems there. I have a feeling that the more restrictive laws that rethugs pass will just prove to do what happened in November. Only make people want more than ever to vote. Every roadblock Republicans try to put up to keep folks from voting will be knocked down by Democrats clamoring to get to the poles. And they WILL find a way …
Voter suppression!
Why are people angry? They want to protect our elections and our democracy…. seems legit
Oh no this is horrible, passing laws that hurt their constituents. Voting has worked that’s why they wanna change it.
I can't wait to vote this guy out!!!
People do realize that the federal government has no power over the state right
All they did was go back to pre pandemic election laws and added a few more days for early voting. I don’t see how this is voter suppression
Greg Abbott is an authoritarian!!
Integrity ?? Then somebody else needs to sign that
Corruption at its best
Allows them to throw away Democrat votes. It's not I.D. Fascism will make Corporations move out of state.
Oh no. How dare he protect voting rights. There was ONE DRIVE THROUGH last year because of covid in the entire state. They are stopping possibly of fraudulent voting. This is fear mongering.
This fake news don’t get it!!!
This fake news don’t get it!!
Everyone on wellfare has to have an ID. I'm still wondering where all these people are who don't have ID? We need to do something about that and get them ID's!
It means nothing. Msnbc is just panic propaganda.
Good job governor
Yeah you don't send ballots to people that don't request them even if they do qualify there are people millions of people that choose not to vote every year that doesn't mean they need to receive a ballot in the mail
Rules are the same for everyone take your ID go to the voting booth and vote see now wasn't that simple
It's all about control through fear; they are checkmating themselves. Let them.
They made it safer. They made it harder for ppl that shouldn’t be voting
Ready for hot wheelz term to be over.
Pretty sure it’s time for Hot Wheels to go.
If democrats would support this if you want legit.
Think about why someone would be opposed to election integrity
This is a good thing. Hope this happens in every state.
PLEASE just cecede already, you've made it clear that you want no part in our democratic society. Take Florida with you and we will be better off as a Nation without you loo-sers sucking on her teat and then complaining cause you got fed! That's some socialism or somethin', right?
Reporter-"What are you hearing from democrats in texas"
Texas democrats "ðŸ˜ÂÂðŸ˜ÂÂðŸ˜ÂÂðŸ˜ÂÂðŸ˜ÂÂðŸ˜ÂÂðŸ˜ÂÂðŸ˜ÂÂðŸ˜ÂÂ"
Me- drown in them tears.
So what'll be the next excuse when Dems keep winning elections? They accuse fraud then try and "fix" future elections by making it more difficult for people to vote. Texas tried a scummy plan last year by allowing only one voting center per county which was thankfully shot down. These guys know that the more people vote in an election, the worse their chances are of winning unless it's some Congressional race. No matter, the more they try and suppress the vote, the harder we'll fight to get legally registered voters out there to keep the republicants from winning the "big ticket" positions
Ok, he may have messed up, he got elected on them things that he just banned, so let's see smarty pants
That’s right.. let’s not forget it’s now somehow racist to have to present id to vote… clowns
Boycott Dell…
Elections are done by the states, not the Federal government. Giving that power to the government will only create more fraud for whatever party who's in control at election time! An ID is absolutely necessary to verify who's really voting.
No more fraud losers!!!!
Wow, this is a joke.