Sen. Bryan Hughes' new bill, S. Bill 9, will disallow driving of elderly, disabled, or poor to vote.

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Can't transport more than 2 non-family voters unless you fill out a form identifying them and affirming they "are physically unable to enter the polling place without personal assistance or likelihood of injuring their health."

Seems @SenBryanHughes hates it when Texans vote.

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Texas Sen. Bryan Hughes' new bill, S. Bill 9, will disallow driving of elderly, disabled, or poor people to the polls. It would ban efforts with vans full of elderly from nursing homes, disabled people, poor people who don’t have cars, would be illegal in Texas

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Bill language link: (There are 3 versions of the bill, at this time.)

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In case you're interested, per 1A:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

So, Constitutionally, this isn't going anywhere.

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1. and of course, on any other day, such a trip would be perfectly legal.

blatant attempt at voter suppression.


plus, idiotic. i can't carpool with my friends to the polls? well, 2 friends is ok, 3 is criminal?

hey guys, short straw has to let me run over his leg so we can carpool legally....

[Delmette2.0]

2. Can't Texans vote by mail?

If this passes, there needs to be a full on campaign to save state and county funds by voting by mail!

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3. Another idiot that needs to be voted out. A lot of elderly folks do get together to go shopping...

go to Town, run errands, etc. (my grandmother and her friends), so this is a weekly ritual that they do. So what are the police going to do, yank all of the cars with more than one elderly person in the car to the side of the road, demand explanations as to what they were doing/going to do, etc.?

This idiot truly needs to be relocated to Russia.

[Gothmog]

4. The GOP is the party of voter suppression

The GOP will do everything that it can to suppress the vote to keep Texas from turning blue. This bill will be challenged

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5. Per the Texas Tribune, SB-9 seems to be in trouble

It looks like they missed an important deadline on May 19th for getting bills passed, so maybe, just maybe next year might be the year when the Great Red Capstone that elected Republican Presidents from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump could crumble.