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Texas 2020 Elections

In Texas, Republicans fight voting by mail expansion while encouraging their voters to use it

What was once a lightly used and largely uncontroversial voting option in Texas, one even Republicans relied on, is now the crux of the latest fight over who gets to vote and, equally as crucial in a pandemic, who has access to safe voting.

Ballot by mail clerk Jim Ragland organized ballot packages at the Travis County Elections Division in Austin in 2014.


“Between a rock and a hard place”

Court battles continue

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