Texas bill will DISALLOW driving of elderly, disabled, or poor people to the polls

[soothsayer]

Link to tweet

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Pam Keith, Esq.
@PamKeithFL
This isn’t just shitty and stupid... it’s unconstitutional

The Hummingbird 🐦
@SaysHummingbird
This is despicable.

Make his name & face known.

A bill by @SenBryanHughes will DISALLOW driving of elderly, disabled, or poor people to the polls -- making it illegal in Texas to drive vans with the elderly from nursing homes, disabled people, poor people who don’t have cars.

[KPN]

1. Who voted for this nut job? You can't tell me who I can offer

a ride to and where! This dog won’t hunt buddy. Go back under your rock.

[LeftInTX]

19. The same people that voted for Gohmert

[SheltieLover]

2. Ridiculous!

[Lovie777]

3. No water .. .

now no rides . . . . .

republicans know they do not have majority of the voters and they should know why, but alas ......

They don't care.

[Tracyjo]

5. They don't care

because they know how to cheat!

[knightmaar]

4. Please verify this --- it may be an exaggeration

Still bad, but not that bad, only applies to drive thru voting.

https://apnews.com/article/301d8df1557b486f8bde568edf562bc6

“It’s only if you are driving three or more people who are physically disabled who want to vote curbside from the polls, allowing them to vote from their car,” Sam Taylor, a spokesman for the Texas secretary of state’s office, told The Associated Press.

In those cases, drivers would need to fill out a form providing their name, address, relationship to the voters and the reason for the transportation to the poll.

[secondwind]

10. This makes more sense ...........

yet another bothersome extra thing to worry about when going to vote... they are snakes!

[MissMillie]

12. a retweet from a post nearly 2 years old

Last edited Thu Apr 1, 2021, 09:22 AM - Edit history (1)

but it's worth looking into whether the bill was filed and what happened to it.

[LeftInTX]

20. It passed the state senate at 2 am!!

[Demsrule86]

15. Just as bad.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Some of those voters are Republicans.

Or... used to be.

The GOP is apparently self-defeating.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. So why isnt the right screaming about big government telling me who I can and cant have

In my car on any given day

[bullwinkle428]

8. States are now competing to "out-Jim Crow" each other.

[left-of-center2012]

9. What about the church vans?

Isn't there a large movement in parts of the country for churches to take voters to the polls in vans?

[nattyice]

11. Oh don't worry. They'll surely make an exception for that

[shrike3]

16. For a black church, I doubt it.

[colsohlibgal]

13. Unbelievable

We are witnessing full on Authoritarianism. This might even top the Georgia no food and water in line clause.

Hope this gets done away with one ay or another.

[dalton99a]

14. NEXT: Walking, bicycles added to prohibited means of transportation for voting

[roamer65]

17. I see no reason to stay in the republic if this shit is allowed.

Michigan will need to leave it.

[Habitation]

18. This is old! and also the tweet is simply wrong! (but it was a crappy bill)

https://www.truthorfiction.com/is-a-proposed-bill-in-texas-trying-to-disenfranchise-the-elderly-and-poor-by-prohibiting-transportation-to-polls/

[Rhiannon12866]

21. When I worked on my Democratic congressman's campaign

My "turf" consisted of several areas of senior housing. Some of them expressed a need for a ride to the polls, so on election day we showed up and drove them as promised, no questions asked, it's what you do.