Texas adopts ballot papers that Democrats sought to block by fleeing the state to Washington

The second-largest U.S. state has passed a bill on voter integrity, which Democrats condemned as racist and tried to block by going to Washington, DC. Republicans say the law will make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.

On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott hailed the passage of Senate Proposition 1 in the state legislature’s emergency session and said it was now on its way to his signature desk. The law will “Consolidate trust and confidence in the outcome of our choices," said Abbott, thanking his sponsors and everyone who helped ensure it was passed.

According to Abbott, the bill “Creates uniform voting time across the country, maintains and expands voting access for registered voters in need of assistance, bans universal suffrage, and increases transparency by providing polls to observe multiple aspects of the electoral process." It also prohibits the distribution of “Unsolicited calls for postal ballots and allow voters with a defective postal ballot to correct the error."

Democrats had condemned the measures as “Voter Suppression” and argued that it was “racist” because it somehow disproportionately affected ethnic minority communities that are suggested to be their natural constituencies. Dozens of them took on a charter flight to Washington, DC in mid-July, trying to deny the legislature quorum and block the passage of the bill.

While greeted by Vice President Kamala Harris and hailed as heroes by National Democrats on Citol Hill, the story quickly took an unfortunate turn when a dozen of the threatening Texans tested positive for Covid-19 and allegedly infected at least one White House official and a Assistant to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California).

The filibuster ended up fading under unfavorable media attention, and lawmakers quietly returned to Texas, where their attendance was forced by the threat of arrest under years of state rule.

Many Republican-led states have proposed or passed electoral reform laws in the wake of controversy over the 2020 presidential vote, in which Democrat Joe Biden beat incumbent President Donald Trump amid the unprecedented rise in the use of mail-in polls and others. innovative procedures, implemented by local authorities due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Democrats have dismissed any concerns about the legitimacy of the vote as false conspiracy theories and any Republican reforms as racist efforts to “suppress” vote. Their proposal to introduce nationwide voting standards is currently pending in Congress.

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