Democrats have officially thrown a hissy fit in response to Texas’ prospective election security law. They stormed off the Texas House floor, denying a vote on the measure last night. The move also ends the current legislative session.
Of course, if you were to ask your average Democrat what is so objectionable about the law, they’d have no answer because it’s not objectionable. Its main factors include things like standardizing mail-in and drive-through voting procedures that were adopted during the pandemic. Democrats oppose doing that because they apparently believe living in a perpetual state of emergency when it comes to voting measures benefits them electorally.
Fortunately, Gov. Greg Abbott was ready to deliver the proper response to this attempt at obstruction. He’s going to be calling a special session soon which can not be ended simply because the minority party walks out.
I wonder out loud how many liberals support this move? Obviously Democrats are a large minority in Texas and have no other move to stop legislation than to literally storm out of session so that there is not a quorum to take the vote. It will not ultimately work, as the bill will reach the Governor's desk, it will be signed into law, and it will survive the obligatory court challenges.
Do rank and file liberals oppose voting laws so venomously that they feel that this sort of minority (not just in the legislation, but in the state) should be able to prevent a popular bill from getting a vote cause of a tantrum?
Just curious...
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AUSTIN, Texas—Texas Democrats pulled off a dramatic, last-ditch walkout in the state House of Representatives on Sunday night to block passage of one of the most restrictive voting bills in the U.S., leaving Republicans with no choice but to abandon a midnight deadline and declare the legislative session over.
The revolt is one of Democrats’ biggest protests to date against nationwide GOP efforts to impose stricter election laws and they used the spotlight to urge President Biden to act on voting rights.
But the victory may be fleeting: Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who had declared new voting laws a priority in Texas, said he would call for a special session to finish the job. He called the failure of the bill “deeply disappointing” but didn’t say when he would bring lawmakers back to work.
“We’ve said for so many years that we want more people to participate in our democracy. And it just seems that’s not the case,” Democratic state Rep. Carl Sherman said.
One by one, Democrats left the House chamber until there was no longer the 100-member quorum needed to pass Senate Bill 7, which would have reduced polling hours, empowered poll watchers and scaled back ways to vote in Texas, which already has some of the nation’s strictest voting laws.
They gathered later outside a Black church, driving home their anger over a last-minute change to the bill that would have prohibited Sunday voting before 1 p.m., when many Black worshipers go to the polls. Democrats said they didn’t go into the vote intending to break quorum, but instead became fed up after Republicans repeatedly refused to take their questions while racing to pass the bill.
When a minority block everything you disagree with is just fine.
Your underlying..... is in your DNA.
Well Rog...
I assume this move by the Democrats (which is an exercise in futility and will not prevent the bill from becoming law) is something that you are 100% against.
I assume that you believe that because Texas has the majorities that they can pass whatever they want?
I assume that you agree that they should not have walked out, but rather accepted the majority rule attitude.
As the night wore on, it became clear that House Democrats intended to do everything they could to block Senate Bill 7, pushing the legislation perilously close to the body’s midnight deadline to act. At one point early in the session, more than two dozen Democrats were absent for a procedural vote, prompting a flurry of speculation that they might try to block a vote by denying the House the necessary quorum.
Calling the measure “egregious” and “horrific,” Democratic lawmakers likened it to the Jim Crow laws of the 20th century that effectively barred Black Americans from voting in Southern states. They sought to slow the process by arguing that the bill had not been properly debated in either chamber.
“That means the voices of Texans were not heard in this debate,” said Rep. John Bucy III (D).
Republicans hashed out a final version behind closed doors late last week over the objections of Democrats, civil rights leaders and business executives, who said the measure targets voters of color. President Biden on Saturday called it “wrong and un-American,” and Democrats vowed to immediately challenge it in court.
“Every American needs to be watching what’s happening in Texas right now,” Rep. Colin Allred (D-Tex.) said Sunday at a news conference. “And we have to have a federal response to this because this has gone way too far.”
“This isn’t legislation,” he added. “This is discrimination.”
When a minority block everything you disagree with is just fine.
The filibuster was designed to prevent racial equity.
Your hypocrisy is getting worse every day
Roger Amick said...
The filibuster was designed to prevent racial equity.
Democrats used filibuster 327 times, compared to only once by GOP in 2020
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-used-filibuster-over-300-times-gop-once
Texas Republicans are simply saying, loud and clear:
WE INTEND TO KEEP N*****S IN TEXAS FROM VOTING BECAUSE THEY WILL VOTE DEMOCRATIC.
Lil Schittty calls it a Hissy fit while the GOP know nothings ignore the country while voting no for a bipartisan panel.....Sad what a bunch of bigots and racists the GOP has become with Lil Schitty leading the charge of trump authoritarian and giving up his rights for a man who could care less about the country....Maybe him and BiBi can spend some quality time together after they both get indicted!!!!!!
Glenn Beck
FANTASTIC VIDEO on racist democrats:
https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1398038805664444416
@WhitlockJason tells me why he's "hopeful that the tide is turning" within the black community thanks to former NBA player Kwame Brown, who is done staying silent.
democrats hate blacks who no longer stay on the democrat plantation
And just yesterday the alky was telling us it was the Trump tariffs that made lumber more expensive -
The US Commerce Department recommended a doubling of tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber last Friday.
The move comes despite lumber prices being up more than 275% since April of last year.
"The White House does not care about the plight of American home buyers and renters," National Association of Home Builders chairman Chuck Fowke said.
The move to increase tariffs on Canadian lumber suppliers comes as lumber prices have risen over 275% since last April alone. Canada's share of the US lumber market sits at around 25% as well, according to the Wall Street Journal.
On May 22, National Association of Home Builders chairman Chuck Fowke released a statement criticizing the move to increase tariffs.
"At a time when soaring lumber prices have added nearly $36,000 to the price of a new home and priced millions of middle-class households out of the housing market, the Biden administration's preliminary finding on Friday to double the tariffs on Canadian lumber shipments into the U.S. shows the White House does not care about the plight of American home buyers and renters who have been forced to pay much higher costs for housing," Fowke wrote.
"The administration should be ashamed for casting its lot with special interest groups and abandoning the interests of the American people," he added.
Canadian authorities also rebuked the newly proposed tariffs.
"US duties on Canadian softwood lumber products are a tax on the American people. They make housing less affordable for Americans and hinder economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic," said Mary Ng, a Canadian MP and the minister of Small Business, Export Promotion, and International Trade.
"We will keep challenging these unwarranted and damaging duties through all available avenues. We remain confident that a negotiated solution to this long-standing trade issue is not only possible, but in the best interest of both our countries," she added.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lumber-prices-us-increase-canadian-tariffs-despite-rising-prices-2021-5-1030468561
always remember -
there's stupid, and then there's "alky" stupid.
Roger Amick said...
The filibuster was designed to prevent racial equity.
Democrats used filibuster 327 times, compared to only once by GOP in 2020
And hypocrisy REMAINS the bedrock of liberalism.
LOL @ the alky.
THWAP!
an exercise in futility and will not prevent the bill from becoming law)
WHAT THE FUCK ELSE COULD THEY DO LIL SCHITTY.....Capitulate like you and the GOP have done to trumps will?????? Yes it is futile like the walk out a couple years ago.....At least they did not send in rioters to the capital to disrupt the vote like you approved of!!!!! Sad how the mighty have their head sooooo far up your asses reality and face are divergent to your goal of power!!!!!
Newsmax
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1399297098797903872
Diamond and Silk: BLM co-founder exploited the pain of Black people - 'she should be ashamed.'
What the BLM founder did was no different than the Bidens, exploitation using their positions.
and making multi-millions for themselves
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
Texas Republicans are simply saying, loud and clear:
WE INTEND TO KEEP N*****S IN TEXAS FROM VOTING BECAUSE THEY WILL VOTE DEMOCRATIC.
How does the law prohibit blacks from voting, pederast?
CH/SCOTTIE UNtruth said:
Obviously Democrats are a large minority in Texas and have no other move to stop legislation than to literally storm out of session so that there is not a quorum to take the vote. It will not ultimately work...
JAMES SAYS:
It has already worked. It has dramatically shown that Texas Republicans will do anything they can to keep blacks from voting in Texas.
Biden bending over , spreading cheeks for Iran.
"A cargo of 1.033 million barrels of Iranian crude oil landed on U.S. shores in March, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed, the second shipment of Iranian oil to be imported into the United States since 1991."
Biden Building Iran Back Better.
Of the top 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates in April, nine have Republican governors. What’s behind this destructive discrepancy?
Economist Dan Mitchell looked at these figures and concluded that there’s “a clear relationship between joblessness and the degree to which states pursue big-government policies.”
In particular, the unemployment rates different states are experiencing are strongly correlated with the harshness and length of the pandemic lockdowns their state governments imposed. With a few exceptions, Republican governors rolled back restrictions on the economy much faster than their Democratic counterparts.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/latest-economic-data-show-red-states-crushing-blue-states-and-heres-why
For what it’s worth, I’m more upset about the subsidized unemployment than the differences in lockdown policies, particularly because the former is more indicative of economic illiteracy.
P.S. One of the worst parts of Biden’s waste-filled stimulus plan is that it gave a big bailout for states, based on a formula that actually rewarded them for having bad numbers.
https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2021/05/26/red-state-vs-blue-state-part-ii/?blogsub=confirming#blog_subscription-3
JAMES SAYS:
It has already worked. It has dramatically shown that Texas Republicans will do anything they can to keep blacks from voting in Texas.
This is a LIE.
Once again the racist rat conflates the D use of the filibuster with what Jowls has done.....God dayum if he only had a fucking brain instead of using the still dead breitbart, where he stole the data from, with reality.....what a dumb fuck he continues
McConnell caved Monday, but only because two senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, publicly promised that they wouldn't vote to abolish the filibuster, which they consider a core part of the Senate's identity.
But I urge them and others wavering on whether to keep the filibuster to consider this: You're only hurting yourself at this point. As things stand, the Republican Party's priorities can no longer effectively be blocked because of the 60-vote threshold. The filibuster hurts Democrats now, and it won't help later, making any argument to keep it in place an own goal of epic proportions.
Ezra Klein: McConnell signaling ‘how obstructionist’ he will be
Click to expand
This isn't just my opinion — the numbers back me up.
Cutting off debate in the Senate so legislation can be voted on is done through a procedure called "cloture," which requires three-fifths of the Senate — or 60 votes — to pass. I went through the Senate's cloture votes for the last dozen years from the 109th Congress until now, tracking how many of them failed because they didn't hit 60 votes. It's not a perfect method of tracking filibusters, but it's as close as we can get.
It's clear that Republicans have been much more willing — and able — to tangle up the Senate's proceedings than Democrats. Mo
publican goals in the Senate during the Trump administration.
Until 2007, the number of cloture votes taken every year was relatively low, as the Senate's use of unanimous consent agreements skipped the need to round up supporters. While a lot of the cloture motions did fail, it was still rare to jump that hurdle at all — and even then, a lot of the motions were still agreed to through unanimous consent. That changed when Democrats took control of Congress in 2007 and McConnell first became minority leader. The number of cloture motions filed doubled compared to the previous year, from 68 to 139.
The filibuster was almost no impediment to Republican goals in the Senate during the Trump administration.
Denny, I will answer any economic question you pose as I did already on the reasons Bidenomics has led to high gas prices.
It is incumbent upon you to learn from this Professor.
Carefully crafted Jim Crow law in Texas.
The bill would have barred Sunday morning get-out-the-vote programs used to mobilize Black churchgoers.
Similarly, the bill’s provision barring early voting before 1 p.m. on Sundays would have had a disproportionate impact on the long-standing get-out-the-vote effort known as “souls to the polls,” which aims at encouraging Black churchgoers to cast their ballots right after services.
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It's specifically crafted to reduce the number of Democratic voters. Who are African Americans citizens.
Well Reverend....
I just hope you either admit that you are against what the Texas Democrats did over an entirely just and fair voting law that does nothing other than make their elections more secure...
and most importantly has overwhelming support of the Texas population...
Or admit that you believe that the Senate needs to keep the filibuster in place to prevent tyranny of the majority?
Because otherwise there is no justification for defending a minority wanting to block an enormously popular and wonderful and fair voting bill that will do no more than ensure clean and fair elections. While simultaneously wanting to abolish a centuries old Senate rule that requires bi-partisan support for bills to pass Congress.
PROUD to be an AMERICAN
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/JVER2ME/status/1399142213712551939
The voter ID is required by law and the right wing nutcases claim that the Democratic party opposes voter Identification laws.
You would have been a Confederate soldier in the civil war because you actually believe that you are superior to peoples of color
and most importantly has overwhelming support of the Texas population...
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Sure Lil Schitty.......Why don't you link us up with proof of that lie!!!!!!!
Democratic lawmakers in the Texas House staged a walkout late Sunday night which broke quorum and, at least temporarily, blocked a GOP-led bill which would enact a range of new voting restrictions in the state. Senate Bill 7, which Texas Republicans finalized Saturday and the Texas Senate passed early Sunday morning, would cap voting hours, bar drive-thru voting, add multiple new rules for mail-in voting, and prevent local expansion of voting options, among other measures. It is part of a nationwide wave of state-level efforts to restrict voting rights by Republican lawmakers following Biden’s victory last year, which Donald Trump and his allies continue to attempt to discredit. The Texas bill, which still seems likely to become to law despite state Democrats’ efforts to stymie it, seems primarily designed to roll back and prevent further efforts to expand voting access in the state’s largest and most diverse counties.
RRB ASKED:
How does the law prohibit blacks from voting, pederast?
PASTOR JAMES SAYS:
You know I am not a pederast and you know the Texas law WILL prevent blacks from voting.
But since you pretend you do not know:
________
‘Wrong and un-American’: Biden blasts Texas Republicans’ SB7 voting bill for having strong effects on ‘Black and brown Americans’
Joe Biden has condemned as “wrong and un-American” a Texas state bill set to pass into law which the president said “attacks the sacred right to vote”, particularly among minorities.
The bill, known as SB7, clamps down on measures such as drive-through voting and voting on Sundays. It would also empower partisan poll-watchers. Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, has said he will sign it. Democrats have said they will challenge it in court.
The bill follows moves in other Republican-controlled states which sponsors insist merely seek to guard against voter fraud but which are seen by most analysts to be aimed at restricting voting by sections of the population which tend to vote Democratic.
According to the New York-based Brennan Center for Justice, nearly 400 such bills have been filed this year across the US, in 14 states.
Biden has already blasted such measures, for instance calling laws in Georgia “Jim Crow in the 21st century”, a reference to the system of racist segregation which remained in place for 100 years after the civil war.
As in other states, major corporations have warned Texas that SB7 could harm democracy and the economy. Republicans have shrugged off such objections and in some cases ripped business leaders for speaking out.
The two Republicans who put SB7 together, Texas senator Bryan Hughes and representative Briscoe Cain, called the bill “one of the most comprehensive and sensible election reform bills” in state history.
In a joint statement, they said: “Even as the national media minimizes the importance of election integrity, the Texas legislature has not bent to headlines or corporate virtue signalling.”
Biden countered:
“Today, Texas legislators put forth a bill that joins Georgia and Florida in advancing a state law that attacks the sacred right to vote. It’s part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year –and often disproportionately targeting Black and brown Americans.
“It’s wrong and un-American. In the 21st century, we should be making it easier, not harder, for every eligible voter to vote.”
Republicans have acted to tighten voting laws as the man Biden beat in the presidential election, Donald Trump, continues to dominate GOP politics and to claim his defeat was the result of mass electoral fraud, a lie repeatedly thrown out of court.
On Saturday, Biden said Congress should pass two federal measures, the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Both face failure in a Senate split 50-50 and where key Democrats have said they will not support moves to abolish the filibuster, the 60-vote threshold by which the minority can block legislation.
Trump’s lies about the election fuelled the deadly attack on the US Capitol by his supporters on 6 January. On Friday, Senate Republicans used the filibuster to block the formation of a 9/11-style commission to investigate that riot.
Regarding the Texas bill, Biden said he “continue[d] to call on all Americans, of every party in persuasion, to stand up for our democracy and protect the right to vote and the integrity of our elections.”
Prominent Texas Democrats were equally quick to register their dismay.
Julián Castro, a former US housing secretary and candidate for the presidential nomination, said: “The final draft of Texas Republicans’ voter suppression bill IS AS BAD AS YOU CAN GET.”
SB7, he said, “restricts registration, absentee, weekend voting and polling hours … ends curb-side voting and discourages rides to polls” and includes a “disability check” for mailed ballots.
“We must defeat SB7,” Castro said.
The former congressman and Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, who also ran for the presidential nomination and like Castro is seen as a potential candidate for governor, thanked Biden for supporting voting rights in the state.
“As you said, we should be making it easier, not harder, for every eligible voter to vote,” he wrote. “The only way to do that now is by passing the For the People Act.”
Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, has said he will force a vote on that measure in June.
The Texas Democratic party called SB7 a “Frankenstein’s monster”. In an emailed statement, Rose Clouston, the party’s voter protection director, said: “A bedrock principle of our democracy is that voters pick their leaders. However, right now, Texas Republicans are trying to hand pick their voters.”
Sarah Labowitz, policy and advocacy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, told the New York Times SB7 was “a ruthless piece of legislation”, as “it targets voters of colour and voters with disabilities, in a state that’s already the most difficult place to vote in the country.”
Hey Roger...
Why don't you actually read the bill yourself
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00007I.pdf
Then come back to me with the sections of this bill that you deem to be unacceptable.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/biden-calls-texas-voting-restrictions-bill-un-american.html
This isn't liberal vs conservative.
It's freedom vs fascism.
I would ask the Reverend to read the bill himself.
But unless it is linked to Politicalwire and has an explanation for him given by Goddard... I doubt that the Reverend would be able to understand it.
Not that I expect Roger will read it either.
Reading it would mean he would have to take the time to understand it and judge it on it's own merits. Much better for him to be the "sheeple" and follow the TPM of his fearful leaders and march in lockstep to the rhetoric!
CH,SCOTTIE SAID
Then come back to me with the sections of this bill that you deem to be unacceptable.
Read what is above, Ch/Scottie,
and then this:
JOE BIDEN,
PRESIDENT OF AND FOR ALL THE PEOPLE:
“It’s wrong and un-American. In the 21st century, we should be making it easier, not harder, for every eligible voter to vote.”
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The voter ID is required by law and the right wing nutcases claim that the Democratic party opposes voter Identification laws.
The democrat party DOES oppose Voter ID laws alky. With every fiber of their being.
ACLU: OPPOSE VOTER ID LEGISLATION - FACT SHEET
https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-sheet
It's a demonstrable FACT that democrats oppose Voter ID laws. Every left wing organization has a position on it and they're all against.
Fascism is about having fake elections without election integrity
That's what the democrat party wants.
Julián Castro, a former US housing secretary and candidate for the presidential nomination, said: “The final draft of Texas Republicans’ voter suppression bill IS AS BAD AS YOU CAN GET.”
SB7, he said, “restricts registration, absentee, weekend voting and polling hours … ends curb-side voting and discourages rides to polls” and includes a “disability check” for mailed ballots.
*** CORRECTION ***
“It’s wrong and un-American. In the 21st century, we should be making it harder, not easier, for voter fraud”
and elections should be quicker, not slower, in the 21st century than back when we used stagecoaches.
9:58 All aimed at minority voters, disabled voters, and especially black voters.
It may not hold up in court, despite the courts' willingness to allow states the right to control elections -- BUT NOT WITH OUTRIGHT VOTER SUPPRESSION, AS IN THE OLD JIM CROW SOUTH.
Wow the "pastor" is shouting mad.
and wrong.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Hey Roger...
Why don't you actually read the bill yourself
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00007I.pdf
Then come back to me with the sections of this bill that you deem to be unacceptable.
Huh. I just skimmed the bill and could not find the language that the alky and the pederast say exists - specifically prohibiting blacks from cast a lawful ballot.
I wonder what would compel them to LIE like that?
I think you have been sufficiently answered, Ch/Scottie.
AND rrb, though he would never admit it.
For instance:
Here is the lie:
Similarly, the bill’s provision barring early voting before 1 p.m. on Sundays would have had a disproportionate impact on the long-standing get-out-the-vote effort known as “souls to the polls,” which aims at encouraging Black churchgoers to cast their ballots right after services.
Here is what the Bill actually says about Sunday voting:
SECTION 3.14. Sections 85.006(c) and (e), Election Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(c) The authority ordering voting on a Saturday or Sunday
shall determine the hours during which voting is to be conducted
except that voting may not be conducted earlier than 7 a.m. or later
than 7 p.m.[.]
But as Stacy Abrams argues..
Just because the law doesn't say something.
Doesn't mean her criticism isn't a valid talking point.
Jamie, calm down, crybay.
-- but not with outright voter suppression, as in the old Jim Crow South.
CORRECT!!!
-- BUT NOT WITH OUTRIGHT VOTER SUPPRESSION, AS IN THE OLD JIM CROW SOUTH.
also correct!!!
Well, I'll at least give democrats points for consistency. Every single narrative they put forth is FALSE. Every fucking one.
Rat
Neither Nursing Home Rog, Denny the Screamer, or the Dishonest Reverend will read the law.
Why?
Because deep down, they know they are being lied to... but they would rather hang on to the lies than know the truth!
SECTION 2.02. Subchapter C, Chapter 125, Election Code, is amended by adding Section 125.0621 to read as follows: Sec. 125.0621. LOGS OF ISSUED AND SPOILED BALLOTS. If an electronic voting system uses paper media for recording votes cast, the election officer shall maintain a record of the serial numbers of all ballots issued at that polling place and the serial numbers of any spoiled ballots, if any. All logs maintained under this section are election records subject to public inspection as provided by Section 1.012. ARTICLE 3. ELECTION OFFICERS AND OBSERVERS SECTION 3.01. Section 32.075, Election Code, is amended by amending adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: (g) A presiding judge may not: (1) have a watcher appointed under Subchapter A, Chapter 33, removed from the polling place; or (2) require a watcher appointed under Subchapter A, Chapter 33, to leave the polling place. SECTION 3.02. Subchapter D, Chapter 32, Election Code, is amended by adding Section 32.077 to read as follows: Sec. 32.077. REMOVAL OF A POLL WATCHER FROM POLLING PLACE. A poll watcher may be removed from a polling place only if the poll watcher engages in activity that would constitute an offense related to election fraud, including an offense under Chapter 276. SECTION 3.03. Chapter 33, Election Code, is amended by adding Section 33.0015 to read as follows: Sec. 33.0015. PURPOSE. The purpose of this chapter is to preserve the purity of the ballot box in accordance with Section 4, Article VI, Texas Constitution, by providing for the appointment of watchers to observe the conduct of an election and call to the attention of an election officer potential irregularities or violations of law in the conduct of the election. SECTION 3.04. Section 33.051, Election Code, is amended by adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read as follows: (h) An offense under Subsection (g) is a Class B misdemeanor. SECTION 3.05. Subchapter C, Chapter 33, Election Code, is amended by adding Section 33.0605 to read as follows: Sec. 33.0605. OBSERVING DATA STORAGE SEALING AND TRANSFER. A watcher appointed to serve at a polling place in an election may observe the sealing and transfer of a memory card, flash drive, hard drive, data storage device, or other medium now existing or later developed used by the voting system equipment. SECTION 3.06. The heading to Section 33.061, Election Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 33.061. UNLAWFULLY OBSTRUCTING OR REMOVING WATCHER. SECTION 3.07. Section 33.061(a), Election Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) A person commits an offense if the person serves in an official capacity at a location at which the presence of watchers is authorized and knowingly prevents a watcher from observing an activity the watcher is entitled to observe, including by having a watcher removed from the polling place or requiring a watcher to leave the polling place, unless the watcher engages in activity that would constitute an offense related to election fraud, including an offense under Chapter 276. SECTION 3.08. Section 61.001, Election Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: (a) Except as permitted by this code and as described by Subsection (a-1), a person may not be in the polling place from the time the presiding judge arrives there on election day to make the preliminary arrangements until the precinct returns have been certified and the election records have been assembled for distribution following the election
The poll watchers are appointed by the Republican officials.
SB7, “restricts registration, absentee, weekend voting and polling hours … ends curb-side voting and discourages rides to polls” and includes a “disability check” for mailed ballots.
The disability require documents from their medical caregivers.
Elderly men and women often find it very difficult and because they only have a couple days to provide the diagnosis.
Scott, you should be able to see how carefully designed to reduce minority turnout.
Especially since the changing demographics the reductions will swing Texas to blue, and this is very specifically designed to reduce African American voters.
SB7, he said, “restricts registration, absentee, weekend voting and polling hours … ends curb-side voting and discourages rides to polls” and includes a “disability check” for mailed ballots.
So Castro decides to prove that he hasn't read the bill either.
LOL.
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Rat
Neither Nursing Home Rog, Denny the Screamer, or the Dishonest Reverend will read the law.
Why?
Because deep down, they know they are being lied to... but they would rather hang on to the lies than know the truth!
Yep. And now the alky will prove this by copy/pasting large random swaths of the bill, all without reading a single word.
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB6/id/234137
It's there Jimmy Hitler Jr.
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB6/id/2341373
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB6/id/2341373
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB6/id/2341373
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB6/id/234137
Nice job alky:
California Senate Resolution 9 (Prior Session Legislation)
Bill Title: Relative to California Teen Safe Driving Week
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-03 - Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 283.) [SR9 Detail]
Download: California-2011-SR9-Introduced.html
THWAP!!!
LOL.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB6/id/2341373
Yet another stellar performance by the alky.
We're discussing TEXAS S.B. No. 7, and the alky delivers a link to Texas House Bill 6.
Coldheart provided the link to the correct bill alky. You stoopid fuck.
Rat - there is nothing in law about blacks or about church voting or anything else like that.
What there is a fairly significant crackdown on sending out unsolicited ballots or assisting people with filling out ballots or asking people to finish filling out ballots that they did not complete, etc, etc...
Sounds like the days of one person thinking that they can go out and solicit and assist with a bunch of other people to vote (how they want them to) are gone in Texas. I am sure that these people probably feel like they are doing good. Getting more people to vote specifically for their candidates.
But the constitution holds that we are allowed one vote per person.
You can go advocate all you want and tell someone how you believe that they should vote. But the second you start assisting it can become illegal.
Not that the law doesn't allow a child to help with an elderly parent or anything like that. But if you are sending in a ballot that you did not fill out yourself, then the person assisting, why they assisted, etc... needs to provided.
I assume that these programs (GOTV) that are supposedly being shut down were actually vote gathering schemes that are now illegal (as they should be anyways). Not get out the vote drives. But attempts for third party people to round up others and get them to vote how they want them to. That is not get out the vote, that is solicitation and a violation of one person one vote.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Ch,
"The bill would also mandate that Sunday early voting could only begin a 1 p.m., which would be a reduction of hours in some areas that start voting at 9 a.m., and impact the popular “Souls to the Polls” voter turnout events hosted by Black churches. And the drive-through voting and expanding voting hours developed in Harris County to help people vote during the coronavirus pandemic would be outlawed."
Somebody seems to be lying. Is it you, or them?
Rat...
The link Roger sent...
Also does not include any of the provisions that they suggest. Nothing about not being able to vote until after 1:00 on Sundays or anything else regarding making Sunday church voting or anything else illegal.
Looks like an earlier and condensed version of the other bill I linked.
I assume that these programs (GOTV) that are supposedly being shut down were actually vote gathering schemes that are now illegal (as they should be anyways).
Precisely. It's ballot harvesting by another name.
Listen to how loudly they're squealing. This indicates just how spot-on the bill is in taking aim at voter fraud.
What I'd like to know is why the left so despises honesty and integrity in our electoral system. I can only conclude that they MUST cheat to win. And their reaction to TX SB7 is a tacit admission of that.
Jamie, read the actual bill.
Then you don't have to depend upon what others write.
The link Roger sent...
Also does not include any of the provisions that they suggest. Nothing about not being able to vote until after 1:00 on Sundays or anything else regarding making Sunday church voting or anything else illegal.
Looks like an earlier and condensed version of the other bill I linked.
The alky linked the TX HOUSE bill. HB 6 which the TX SENATE amended and it because SENATE Bill 7.
He's so furiously searching he can't even get that right. His tablet must be so spittle-flecked the text is no longer legible.
What the Church Voting deal is likely referring to is that Texas (like every other state not in a Covid emergency status) is going back to the concept of the permanent polling stations.
Texas is not codifying in any of the "mobile" polling stations (that probably were driven by active partisans to various partisan strongholds as a means to attract voters).
This was where Texas (and other states) ran into issues with solicitation. It's hard to "solicit" a voter who comes to a voter station. But if you go out and come with mobile voting stations, a bunch of early voting ballots, and a crowd of people... well, we all know that is being done for the benefit of the people working the mobile station (not the potential voters). That was where there as people "assisting" with ballots and such and actually hassling people to complete ballots (as they became bored and didn't actually want to do it).
I am all for increasing people's ability to go vote.
I am all for people who want to go door to door and tell people to vote and who to vote for.
but you cannot combine the two and have the same people who are soliciting voters for a Party also just happened to have the ballots with them and are willing to "assist" with filling them out.
Portions of the bill were specifically written to target voting initiatives Harris County used in the last election — such as a day of 24-hour early voting, drive-thru voting and an effort to proactively distribute applications to vote by mail — that were heavily used by voters of color. But under SB 7, those options will be banned across the state.
It would set a new window for early voting from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and make it a state jail felony for local officials to send mail-in ballot applications to voters who did not request them. It would also be a felony to provide those applications to third-party groups, like the League of Women Voters, that get out the vote. It also expands the freedoms of partisan poll watchers, granting them “free movement” within a polling place, except for when a voter is filling out a ballot.
Somebody seems to be lying. Is it you, or them?
Well Reverend.
I quoted the bill and provided a link.
You can download either Roger's link or my link. Both are versions of the new voter law.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00007I.pdf
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/HB00006I.pdf
Feel free to find an actual portion of the bill that outlaws voting before 1:00 on Sunday.
If it's between what the bill reads.
and what someone says about the bill.
Which would you trust?
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
According to the Dallas Morning News, Ch,
"The bill would also mandate that Sunday early voting could only begin a 1 p.m., which would be a reduction of hours in some areas that start voting at 9 a.m., and impact the popular “Souls to the Polls” voter turnout events hosted by Black churches. And the drive-through voting and expanding voting hours developed in Harris County to help people vote during the coronavirus pandemic would be outlawed."
Somebody seems to be lying. Is it you, or them?
The paper is LYING.
Sec.85.005. REGULAR DAYS AND HOURS FOR VOTING.
Begins on line 6, page 15 of the bill.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00007I.pdf
If I was able to find it, I'm sure one of their crack investigative reporters can.
Unless the intention was to LIE that is.
So what have we learned?
We've learned that the pederast is not and never was a legitimate "pastor," but he was and is a prolific LIAR.
California and almost every other state mail out mail in ballots, without the certified information. But before you can vote you are required to provide certified information.
The Republicans make it a state jail felony for local officials to send mail-in ballot applications to voters who did not request them.
It's very carefully designed voter suppression.
If it effected Republican voters you would go on a 500 word diatribe against the legislation
But you don't care about the basic freedom to choose our leaders because you are fascistic.
Unless there is a "different bill" than the ones I am seeing?
But these are the only bills from Texas made available at this time?
The one I linked is supposed to go into affect Sept of 2021.
That seems like the correct date.
IS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LYING?
Associated Press
EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder
by Acacia Coronado
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas took a major step Sunday toward becoming the nation’s largest state where the GOP is making voting harder following the 2020 elections, with the Senate approving a bill that would empower poll watchers, create criminal penalties and add new restrictions on where, when and how to vote.
Advocates say the changes would disproportionately affect minorities and people with disabilities....
America's largest red state already has some of the tightest voting restrictions in the country and is regularly cited by nonpartisan groups as a state where voting is especially difficult. It was one of the few states that did not make it easier to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic, instead sending droves of voters to the polls to cast their ballots in-person....
So what's included in the planned changes and how did they come about? Here are some details:
WHAT THE LEGISLATION MEANS FOR VOTERS AND ELECTION OFFICIALS
The GOP legislation — known as Senate Bill 7 — proposes cutting back on early voting, banning drive-thru voting and making it a felony for elected voting officials who send unsolicited mail ballot applications to Texas voters. Harris County — which includes Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city, and is a Democratic stronghold — introduced drive-thru voting for November's election but courts blocked election officials from sending mail voting applications to all registered voters.
Final wording of the legislation also adds a voter ID requirement to mail ballot applications, requiring voters to submit a driver's license or social security number.
Early voting on Sundays also could not begin before 1 p.m., which Democrats say would depress turnout among Black churchgoers who cast their ballot after morning worship services in “souls to the polls” efforts.
Additionally, the bill would require people who are helping voters to disclose their relationship to the voter, whether they were paid to help and whether the voter is eligible to receive assistance and could face a state jail felony for violations
But partisan poll watchers — looking to raise concerns to their political party — would have more access and election workers could be charged with a crime if they block a poll watcher’s view.
“It is a solution in search of a problem,” said Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier, chairwoman of the Texas Legislative Black Caucus. “I don’t know what they are trying to address. They won the election, I don’t know where the voter fraud is occurring.”
The answer from Republican state Rep. Briscoe Cain, one of the lead authors of the bills: "We don’t need to wait for bad things to happen to protect the security of the election.”
HOW DID THE LEGISLATION GET HERE?
Republican lawmakers in Texas are looking to add restrictions similar to those their GOP colleagues in Florida, Georgia and Arizona made into law using former President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud to justify new rules in the name of election security. (Elections experts say election fraud is exceedingly rare.)
In Texas, the GOP has insisted that the changes are needed to restore confidence in the voting process, and not a response to Trump’s false assertions. Republicans in Texas continued seeing their margins of victory shrink in November but still won up and down the ballot.
Originally, GOP members of each chamber had submitted their own omnibus voting legislation just before the state’s filing deadline. Sunday’s combined legislation added 12 additional pages of new restrictions. The latest version also deleted language that would allow election officials to have poll watchers removed if they breach the peace.
PROBLEMS WITH TRANSPARENCY
The final version of the bill was hashed out behind closed doors by a 10-person, bipartisan committee of lawmakers from both chambers before it was sent back to the full House and Senate for final votes. Known as a conference committee, the panel is majority Republican, so the party that proposed the restrictions remained in control.
Voting rights advocates were alarmed that the committee met without making its negotiations public. And some Democratic members of the committee said they had little to no input on the final contents of the bill.
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Acacia Coronado is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
Roger - why should you be able to send out ballots to people who didn't request them?
The Republicans make it a state jail felony for local officials to send mail-in ballot applications to voters who did not request them.
It's very carefully designed voter suppression.
LOL.
Ok, riddle me this Captain Logic -
How does one suppress the vote of someone who never requested a mail-in ballot in the first place?
That prospective voter either -
A) Is planning on voting the old fashioned way, at a polling place
or
B) Doesn't give a fuck and isn't going to vote.
Not mailing that person something they never requested does not suppress their vote one fucking bit.
You're an imbecile alky.
If I ever receive an unsolicited mail in ballot in my mailbox that fucker is going straight to my shredder, and then the bits into my fireplace. Unsolicited mail in ballots are the things that vote fraudsters dream of. Without a chain of custody there's no way to determine if that ballot was legally completed. And THIS is why you guys love them so much.
(b)AAA polling place established under this section may be
located, subject to Subsection (d), at any place in the territory
served by the early voting clerk and may be located inside [in] any
building [stationary structure] as directed by the authority
establishing the branch office. The polling place may not be
located in a tent or other temporary movable structure or a parking
garage, parking lot, or similar facility designed primarily for
motor vehicles in the general election for state and county
officers, general primary election, or runoff primary election.
Ropes or other suitable objects may be used at the polling place to
ensure compliance with Section 62.004. Persons who are not
expressly permitted by law to be in a polling place shall be
excluded from the polling place to the extent practicable.
These restrictions are designed to reduce the number of voting sites in minority groups
The one I linked is supposed to go into affect Sept of 2021.
That seems like the correct date.
The bill you referenced is correct.
What's funny is how the pederast and the alky need "journalists" (LOL) to interpret the bill for them.
Okay I found the most recent revised bill
https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/2490ed02-90c2-4d34-8641-6f498a252ad6/note/290eec09-46dd-491b-b553-b2a2796c7694.#page=1
This was revised on Saturday.
It expands the voting hours from 7:00 - 7:00 to 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM six days a week, but it does limit Sunday voting to 8 hours 1:00 - 9:00 PM.
So I stand corrected, as I will willingly admit when I find new information.
That being said, when you are asking polling stations to stay open an extra 18 hours during the week and on Saturdays, I don't find it too terribly intrusive to provide a smaller time frame for Sundays.
So the actual end result is that the revision adds an additional 14 hours to early voting each week, and the critics only point to Sunday
I posted a section of the law
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00007I.pdf
Scott deleted it
These restrictions are designed to reduce the number of voting sites in minority groups
That is explicitly stated exactly nowhere in the language of the bill.
So therefore you're forced to LIE.
So the actual end result is that the revision adds an additional 14 hours to early voting each week, and the critics only point to Sunday
14 additional net hours for voting but less voting on Sunday is the crime of the century. Geezus, the left is pathetic.
rrb says:
So what have we learned?
We've learned that the pederast is not and never was a legitimate "pastor," but he was and is a prolific LIAR.
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RETIRED PASTOR JAMES BOSWELL SAYS:
LOL and I suppose you've also "learned" that Biden was not elected President.
Anyone who wants to get in touch with our local newspaper can determine that I am a legitimate pastor, or our Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) regional office in Illinois and Wisconsin, or the nearby Bellflower, IL Christian Church I served for 19 years.
I'm retired now, but remain in good pastoral standing.
Here I am, too:
"Jesus Laid Bare
Imagined Conversations With Jesus"
by Jim Boswell
If we could talk with Jesus,
what would he think of us?
And how would he want us
to think about him now?
VIDEO by Jim Boswell [24 minutes]
https://youtu.be/nk75iQ8R2Rw
What did I "delete" Roger?
Section 7 means
Harris County — home to Houston, the state's biggest city — the formula would mean fewer polling places in 13 of the 24 districts contained in the county, all currently represented by Democrats. Every district held by a Republican would either see a gain in polling places or see no change.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00007I.pdf
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
What did I "delete" Roger?
You deleted nothing. The alky just can't help himself. He feels compelled to lie with every comment.
so a formula based on population is now racist?
So now that Ch has admitted I and the others I cited have not been lying,
he ruefully says:
CH/SCOTTIE:
"I don't find it too terribly intrusive to provide a smaller time frame for Sundays."
JAMES:
Just ADMIT it, Scottie:
It's aimed DIRECTLY at
those BLACK churches who have been providing their congregants with transportation to voting places on Sundays.
THUS IT CONSTITUTES JUST ONE MORE INSTANCE OF BLACK VOTER SUPPRESSION.
As James earlier said,
Texas Republicans just plain don't want N*****s voting.
Yes...
because adding nearly two hours a day in early voting is now racist voter suppression!
If these church groups want to go vote on Sundays, I am sure they can figure out how to get there. Perhaps it's just a Midwestern and West Coast thing, but pretty much every church I know of has an 11:00 Sunday service (and sometimes even a later one). Have a service, serve some coffee or sandwiches and go vote. If they cannot figure it out, then not much of a church if you ask me.
I am curious as to what they did before?
The old Texas law only had five hours of Sunday voting?
The bill allows courts to throw out results if enough ballots were cast illegally that it could have made a difference.
A conservative judge is allowed to throw out enough ballots to reverse the election results.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/31/politics/what-matters-texas-voting-bill/index.html
Ch, lots of working blacks in particular are helped by being provided transportation on Sundays to vote.
Sad that you and the Klan do not WANT them voting.
So we have here yet ANOTHER thread that's not working out so well for Ch and others of his ilk.
Probably will be true too for the one that just went up above.
Melissa Tate
RACIST BIDEN EXPOSED VIDEO :
https://twitter.com/TheRightMelissa/status/1398460745910784000
Wow! Judge Joe Brown tells Kwame Brown he was there when Joe Biden made his racist segregationist speech: “Negro Children are like roaches & should be integrated with white kids”
and from there it just gets worse.
No wonder dems are panicked while getting thrashed
btw way "pastor" you may not be too bright but you just got thrashed by CHT, rrb and the actual law, not FAKE NEWS talking points from the DNC
Funny, I feel more like the thrashER than the thrashEE, ho, ho, ho!
And more in the next thread up!
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rrbMay 31, 2021 at 11:13 AM
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
What did I "delete" Roger?
You deleted nothing. The alky just can't help himself. He feels compelled to lie with every comment"
Roger, what DID CHT delete that you posted
The sweeping bill would ban drive-thru voting, limit voting hours, make it more difficult to cast mail ballots and empower partisan poll watchers.
And limit the Sunday vote times to reduce the number of African American religious groups allowed to vote by limiting the amount of time to vote.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-democrats-stage-walkout-stop-debate-restrictive-voting-bill-delaying-n1269079
Statement by President Joe Biden on Texas Senate Bill 7
MAY 29, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Today, Texas legislators put forth a bill that joins Georgia and Florida in advancing a state law that attacks the sacred right to vote. It’s part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year—and often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans.
It’s wrong and un-American. In the 21st century, we should be making it easier, not harder, for every eligible voter to vote.
I call again on Congress to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. And I continue to call on all Americans, of every party and persuasion, to stand up for our democracy and protect the right to vote and the integrity of our elections.
Biden thinks blacks are too stupid to get an ID.
The law would have banned election officials from offering drive-thru voting or holding voting locations open 24 hours a day during the early voting period, both of which Harris County did in 2020. A highly minority region.
The legislation would have also only allowed Sunday voting to be held between 1 pm and 9 pm, a provision interpreted by some civil rights advocates as an attack on "Souls to the Polls" voting drives popular in African-American communities. It provides a 4 hour window of time to vote. If a Democratic state had done the same thing in red regions Scott asshole would have been shouting fraud
The law would have also made it a felony for election officials to send absentee ballot applications to voters who did not request them, which Harris County also attempted in 2020 , broadened powers of partisan election observers, and lowered the threshold required to challenge and overturn election results in many cases.
A judge could send the election back to the state legislatures, with a Republican majority.
You think they are too stupid to get a voter ID.
https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0aGQKAFB?&share_destination_id=OTk4MTAxMzQtMTYyMjQ4Mzk4MTExNA==&s=a7&pd=06knAsNf&hl=en_US&lp=v3
The law would have banned election officials from offering drive-thru voting
Which had never been done before, enacted due to Covid. So drive through voting wasn’t codified and now the legislature is doing its job
Harris County implemented drive-thru voting during the 2020 election to expand voter participation during the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of residents were able to vote from their cars.
If the state legislature doesn't pass the most dangerous voting rights restrictions by midnight tomorrow morning, it is dead.
Abbott said he would call a special session but not yet.
Ch, lots of working blacks in particular are helped by being provided transportation on Sundays to vote.
So blacks are incapable of being "driven" to vote on Sundays after 1:00?
I guess you might have to explain this to me better?
Heh Abbot took away their candy by vetoing funding for the legislature until he gets election reform on his desk.
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