Texas Democrats launch aggressive voter-protection effort
The Texas Democratic Party plans to announce Thursday that it is partnering with Fair Fight, the organization started by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, to launch an expansive voter-protection program.
Texas’s voter registration and participation rates are among the lowest in the country, which Democrats have long blamed, at least partly, on cumbersome registration rules and Republican-backed laws that they say make it much more difficult for Texans — especially those who are young, nonwhite or low-income — to vote.
“They just put up hurdle after hurdle for voters, and we need to be working year round,” said Rose Clouston, who was hired recently to be the state party’s first voter-protection director.
Ahead of the 2020 election, Fair Fight is partnering with state Democratic parties or other entities in 18 states to create, train and fund four-person voter-protection teams hyper-focused on making voting easier. The other states include Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, Michigan, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Minnesota, Arizona, Mississippi, Alabama and Maine, according to the Fair Fight 2020 website.
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