United States: elected Democrats leave Texas to block the vote on the electoral law
In Texas, the Constitution requires 100 in the House of Representatives out of 150 members for any law vote.
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In Texas, an electoral bill, more restrictive than that of Georgia, had been criticized by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
By the time of the first vote, the Democrats had left Parliament, preventing its passage during the last hours of the legislative session, on May 31.
They were gathered in an extraordinary session for the passage of very conservative laws on education, transgender rights, the right of expression on Facebook and Twitter and this electoral law.
The majority of Democrats have again decided to prevent the quorum and leave the territory of Texas.
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With our correspondent in Houston,
Thomas Harms
In Texas, the Constitution requires 100 present in the House of Representatives out of 150 members for any law vote.
This Monday, July 12, almost all 67 elected Democrats gathered at Austin airport to fly in two planes to Washington DC.
No quorum, no vote.
If they had remained in Texas, the other elected officials could have voted for their arrest and their obligation to sit.
The Republicans had accelerated the legislative course of the electoral law by working all weekend, even at night.
The text was to be presented on Tuesday.
The law prohibits the right to vote 24 hours a day, prohibits voting from one's car, prohibits the sending of postal voting forms if it has not been requested, and allows party observers to film voters and verify that they are 'they don't cheat.
What critics of the law call intimidation and an attempt to restrict the right to vote.
Governor Greg Abbott had convened this extraordinary session, which began last Thursday and was to last 30 days, to precisely vote this electoral law.
He had even withdrawn funds from the legislature until it was done.
In Washington, the Texas Democrats are now hoping Capitol Hill officials will vote on a text securing the right to vote across the United States.
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