We haven't seen the last of the Election Integrity bill, which was killed after Democrats walked out of the chamber Sunday night.
Luis Vera with League of United Latin American Citizens says it will return in a special session and will be more restrictive than before. He says what made it to the house floor was a watered down version. "I would say that what started as SB 7, about 40% of it was removed and about 60% was still left. It was horrible, the 60%." He says the bill originally was much stricter, but Republicans agreed to remove some items over the last two weeks, including giving the Secretary of State the right to purge voters off the rolls. "What will happen now, they'll come back with every single thing that they had before, and this time the governor is going to want to ram it down the Democratic party throats."
Vera says it will come back in a much stronger form and calls new Republican voting laws nationwide very restrictive. "These are as bad as they were in the 50's and 60's. Instead of moving forward, we're going backwards."
He says Republicans wanted this bill to die, and if they really wanted to vote Sunday, the Speaker of the House could have locked the doors and DPS troopers could have kept Democrats from leaving."
Vera says the GOP's end game was to kill the measure in order to come back with an even harsher bill. "The Democrats self interest is they get to push even harder, with their political ideology of letting the rest of the country know how bad the Republican party has become by these restrictive bills."
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