Republicans don't want you to have the right to vote

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3. There are some provisions in the Texas Constitution

It's a little different there, constitutionally. There are some quirks in the state constitution that date back to its heritage as having been a flamboyant but short-lived Republic, that play to the Democrats' advantage as a minority.

For one thing, the governor's powers are extremely limited. There's some question as to whether he has the constitutional authority to actually arrest the legislators once the special session is over and they come back to Texas. He could take a shot at calling another legislative session but their passion right now is to get redistricting passed, which caused the Democrats to pull this same stunt back in 2009. As a result of all of that, they need at least a third of the Democrats to go along with their plan so if they keep pressing this, they will likely have to defer the redistricting to the courts like they did in 2009.