Texas election workers are providing practical and emotional support to confused voters. | via NPR
"Your core rights in this country should never be someone else's learning curve," she said.The law's changes are not limited to identification requirements. It also includes a slew of other restrictions, including banning drive-through voting and 24-hour voting sites, things that Harris County implemented in 2020 to help people vote more easily and safely during the pandemic.
Other provisions of the law directly focus on voters with disabilities, and advocates say those have created a lot of confusion, particularly around what type of assistance a person with disabilities may access when voting. That's led to some personal care attendants worrying about"being criminally liable for providing assistance that they ordinarily provide to people with disabilities," he said.
Texas is one of 18 states that passed more restrictive voting laws after the 2020 presidential election. James Slattery, a senior staff attorney for the Texas Civil Rights project, said the rollout of the law here could provide a preview of what's to come across the country.It is merely the first to have a primary under its new law, and there's no reason to think it's going to go any better in any of the other states where they did something similar.
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