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Here are those limits: https://www.votetexas.gov/faq/early-voting.html https://www.votetexas.gov/faq/early-voting.html They really don’t seem draconian to me.

• JumpCrisscross 5y ago
  Those are the current limits. These are the new ones [1]. [1] https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/21/texas-voting-restrictions-senate-bill-7/ https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/21/texas-voting-restric...
  • dfee 5y ago
    > Regulating voting hours > Currently, counties with a population of 100,000 or more must provide at least 12 hours of early voting each weekday of the last week of early voting. > SB 7 would lower that population threshold to 30,000 so more counties would be required to offer more early voting hours between the newly established window of 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. You’re against this? > But the legislation also sets a 12-hour cap on how long early voting can run during that week, so polling places that stay open until 9 p.m. would have to open up later in the morning. Or you think only being open for 12 hours is too constraining for [in person, early] voting… nonetheless in towns of 30k people? I mean, there’s going to be a mixed bag if I were to really dig in, and now that I’m not a TX resident anymore, I don’t really care to. In Palo Alto, during the last presidential election, I had to hand my ballot to a person who before feeding it into the machine reviewed my votes. She was particularly concerned about me choosing to NOT vote on certain issues, asking me if I wanted to try again. I never had anything like that in Texas or Oklahoma.