He said he paid $30 to request a copy of his birth certificate, which he then sent the county a picture of as proof of citizenship and was soon notified the issue was resolved. Monty Tew, a 52-year-old who was born in Texas, said he couldn't understand why he got the letter asking him to prove his citizenship. But some who received the warning letters were citizens. More than 2,000 registrations ended after the voters did not come in, according to the Texas Secretary of State's office. But Democrats and civil rights groups say what has happened so far is alarming.įirst, Texas sent letters to more than 11,000 voters warning them their registrations will be canceled unless they prove to their local elections office they are citizens. Many of its provisions, such as expanded powers for partisan poll watchers, don't take effect until the election.
The national GOP campaign to tighten voting laws has been partly driven by former President Donald Trump’s false claims that he won the election, not President Joe Biden.ĭemocrats have strenuously objected - including by walking out and to gridlock the Legislature, warning it could disenfranchise untold numbers of voters, especially Black, Latino and Asian people. The Texas law was approved last year by Republicans, who joined their party colleagues in at least 18 states, including Florida, Georgia and Arizona, in enacting new voting restrictions since the 2020 election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. “It’s just a bad situation on a number of levels," said James Slattery, an attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, one of several voting rights groups that has sued the state over the new law. And this week, local elections officials said hundreds of mail-in ballot applications are being rejected for not including required new information. citizens - have received letters saying they have been flagged as potential noncitizens who could be kicked off voting rolls.
Thousands of Texans - including some U.S. A sweeping new Texas voting law that Republicans muscled through the Legislature last year over dramatic protests is drawing fire again, even before some of the most contentious restrictions and changes kick in ahead of the state's first-in-the nation primary.
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