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Staff shortages in multiple Texas counties in Texas meant that voters of one party couldn’t vote at a particular site, at least temporarily. Fact-check: Why some voters faced challenges voting ...
Most significantly, however, 11% of female non-voters in the survey cited a "Disbelief in woman's voting" as the reason they did not vote. With the exception of 1916, voter turnout declined in the decades preceding women's suffrage. [23] Despite this decline, from the 1900s until 1920, several states passed laws supporting women's suffrage.
Last year, Senate Bill 990, authored by North Texas Republican state Sen. Bob Hall, aimed to eliminate the countywide voting program and require residents to vote at their assigned precinct. The ...
Election law changes enacted in 2021 could have a profound effect on the 2022 mid-term elections. How will those changes affect Texas voter access?
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States posed challenges for the 2020 election, with many states expanding mail-in voting to avoid voters having to choose between not voting and risking illness by voting in person. President Trump encouraged restricting mail-in voting, and hundreds of lawsuits were filed disputing whether witness ...
The women's primary vote provision passed both houses easily on March 21 with a vote of 84 for and 34 against in the House and 18 for and 4 against in the Texas Senate. [ 50 ] [ 65 ] Governor Hobby signed it into law on March 26, though the law would not go into effect for ninety days. [ 59 ]
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an elections overhaul into law Tuesday that adds more voting restrictions in the booming state, after Democrats spent months protesting what they say are ...
One analysis of a Florida election in 2012 found that 200,000+ people did not vote because of long lines. [49] Some Floridians were forced to wait 6–7 hours to vote. [1] In 2013, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, several states enacted voter ID laws. Some argue that such laws amount to voter ...