New Voting Laws Will Hurt Minorities
Last year, Republicans led the effort to make voting harder nationwide. False accusations by former president Donald Trump and his supporters that the 2020 election was unfair spurred legislators in 19 states to enact 33 laws that restrict voting rights, limiting the political power of minorities.
Ballots Will Be Harder to Cast in Texas
The Texas Legislature passed a voting law that:
banned 24-hour voting
created regular citizenship checks of voter rolls,
made it more difficult for poll workers to assist voters, and
granted partisan poll watchers more power to disrupt voting
Texas’s Redistricting Denies Minorities a Voice
Texas is the U.S.’s 2nd most populous state and since 2010 has gained the most people of any of our 50 states. The 2020 census shows 95% of Texas’s population growth was due to people of color. Yet during the state’s redistricting, the intense gerrymandering ended up denying people of color equal representation. This means Texas minorities will not influence who represents them in two new Congressional seats that were created by the higher population.
