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Texas Democrats walk out to stop Voting Restrictions Bill
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 75991300" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/01/texas-voting-bill-sunday-republicans/" target="_blank">Thank heavens for the Democrats! They prevented a terrible mistake. The Texas voting law called for Sunday voting to start at 1 pm. But that was simply a <strong><em>typo</em></strong>. The Republicans meant to put 11 AM.</a></p><p></p><p>In an <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002018197/texas-governor-vows-action-after-democrats-walk-out-over-voting-bill" target="_blank">interview Tuesday with NPR</a>, one of the negotiators, Rep. <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/directory/travis-clardy/" target="_blank">Travis Clardy</a> of Nacogdoches, said the 1 p.m. start time was an error and that it should have been 11 a.m. Despite his claim, no Republicans raised an issue with the start time during final debate over the bill, and one of them even defended it.</p><p></p><p>Clardy told NPR that the Sunday start time was "one of the things I look forward to fixing the most" in a special session.</p><p></p><p>"That was not intended to be reduced," Clardy said. "I think there was a — call it a mistake if you want to — what should have been 11 was actually printed up as 1."</p><p></p><p>After Clardy's interview with NPR, another GOP negotiator and the bill's House sponsor, Rep. <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/directory/briscoe-cain/" target="_blank">Briscoe Cain</a> of Deer Park, said that what Clardy said was true and that lawmakers intended to fix the start time in a special session.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 75991300, member: 294566"] [URL='https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/01/texas-voting-bill-sunday-republicans/']Thank heavens for the Democrats! They prevented a terrible mistake. The Texas voting law called for Sunday voting to start at 1 pm. But that was simply a [B][I]typo[/I][/B]. The Republicans meant to put 11 AM.[/URL] In an [URL='https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002018197/texas-governor-vows-action-after-democrats-walk-out-over-voting-bill']interview Tuesday with NPR[/URL], one of the negotiators, Rep. [URL='https://www.texastribune.org/directory/travis-clardy/']Travis Clardy[/URL] of Nacogdoches, said the 1 p.m. start time was an error and that it should have been 11 a.m. Despite his claim, no Republicans raised an issue with the start time during final debate over the bill, and one of them even defended it. Clardy told NPR that the Sunday start time was "one of the things I look forward to fixing the most" in a special session. "That was not intended to be reduced," Clardy said. "I think there was a — call it a mistake if you want to — what should have been 11 was actually printed up as 1." After Clardy's interview with NPR, another GOP negotiator and the bill's House sponsor, Rep. [URL='https://www.texastribune.org/directory/briscoe-cain/']Briscoe Cain[/URL] of Deer Park, said that what Clardy said was true and that lawmakers intended to fix the start time in a special session. [/QUOTE]
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