US President Joe Biden has denounced a planned change in the electoral law in the state of Texas as an attack on democracy and as discriminatory.
The bill was "part of an attack on democracy such as we have seen far too often this year" and which "disproportionately" affects African Americans and other non-whites, Biden said on Saturday.
With the bill, Texas is joining the states of Georgia and Florida, which also wanted to limit the “holy right to vote”, criticized the US President.
The changes in the electoral law in Republican-ruled Texas include a ban on so-called drive-in voting, a limitation of postal voting options and shorter opening times for polling stations.
Republicans defend reform
Proponents of the changes argue that it would make voting safer.
Critics of the project, on the other hand, see it as an attempt to make voting more difficult for non-whites, who are often close to the Democratic Party.
Since last year's presidential election, in which Democrat Biden prevailed against Republican incumbent Donald Trump, electoral law reforms have been on the table in several Republican-ruled US states.
The Republicans justify this with the alleged susceptibility of the previous electoral legislation to fraud.
To this day, Trump spreads the conspiracy theory that he was only deprived of a second term through alleged electoral fraud.
A change in the electoral law that was sharply criticized by critics had already been adopted in March by the US state of Georgia.
At the time, Biden spoke of a law that ran “contrary to American values” and had the goal of “depriving voters of their right to vote”.