'This seems to be an attempt to suppress individuals from actually going to exercise their right to vote,' says Tommy Buser-Clancy, a senior staff attorney with ACLUTx.
Voting rights advocates responded with alarm to reports this week that around half of the mail-in voting applications in Texas' fifth-largest county have been rejected as a result of a recently enacted voter suppression law that experts say is part of a nationwide Republican effort to restrict access to the polls.
"It's disturbing that our senior citizens who have relished and embraced voting by mail are now having to jump through some hoops.", election officials in Travis County—home of the state capital, Austin—said they have rejected around half of the 700 requested vote-by-mail applications they've received so far ahead of the March primaries. The officials say they are complying with S.B.
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