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Senate Bill 1 prohibits drive-thru and 24-hour voting, offers protections for partisan poll watchers and changes laws related to voting by mail.
In 2001, State Representative Ron Wilson proposed lowering the state's voting age to 14, but the proposal did not become law. [1] The city of Amarillo adopted cumulative voting systems, in which voters can cast one vote per seat, in 2002, allowing for broader representation on the local school boards. [2] In 2003, some Democratic state ...
Signed into law by President Joe Biden as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 on December 29, 2022 The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 is a revision of the Electoral Count Act of 1887 , adding to procedures set out in the Constitution of the United States for the counting of electoral ...
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed redrawn voting maps that pave a safer path for the GOP’s slipping majority, leaving opponents hoping courts will block the newly gerrymandered ...
The 2022 Texas elections were held on November 8, 2022. Primary elections were held on March 1, with runoffs held on May 24 for primary candidates who did not receive a majority of the vote. Primary elections were held on March 1, with runoffs held on May 24 for primary candidates who did not receive a majority of the vote.
Confusion galore, and a March 1 primary election quickly approaching.This is the reality in Texas as SB 1—a controversial voting bill signed into law last year—goes into effect.
Abbott signed the sweeping changes during a ceremony in the East Texas city of Tyler, where the surrounding county went for former President Donald Trump by a more than 2-to-1 margin last year.
The Texas Legislature passed maps for the state House of Representatives in 1971, but it did not pass state Senate maps, forcing the Legislative Redistricting Board to convene for the first time to draw the chamber's maps. The map for the state Senate passed the scrutiny of the courts, but the map for the state House did not. [96]