New county clerk sworn in as the Texas Lege looks to restrict voting access.
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"I have heard loud and clear that because of the size of our county, how quickly the population has grown, our traffic patterns, all of the changes our community has gone through in the last number of decades, really there's a call and a need for more polling locations," she said. But adding polling locations will require the county to acquire more polling machines and as much as double its elections workforce.
Prior to the start of the current legislative session, state legislators had prefiled more than 75 bills related to voting and elections in the state – with select Republicans pushing a bill that would let the secretary of state appoint election marshals to investigate possible violations of state election law. A number of people targeted by Florida's similar election crime unit thus far have been people of color, some of whom say they didn't know they were ineligible to vote.
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