“A Texas House committee on Thursday advanced an elections bill that would make it a state jail felony for local election officials to distribute an application to vote by mail to a voter who didn’t request one,” the Texas Tribune reports.
“House Bill 6 is part of a broader Republican effort this year to enact wide-ranging changes to elections in Texas that would ratchet up the state’s already restrictive election rules in the name of ‘election integrity’ despite little to no evidence of widespread fraud.”
This is in addition to Senate Bill 7, which advanced last week.
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