Texas Politics 365: Polling places

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Texas Republican Files Bill To Ban Polling Places At Schools

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Texas state Rep. Carrie Isaac wants to keep voting out of Texas schools.

Isaac, a freshman Republican, filed a 124-word bill to bar polling places at any “institution of higher education” last week, and on Tuesday, she said she’s working on a bill to bar polling places at K-12 public and charter schools, too.

We must do everything we can to make our school campuses as safe as possible,” she said in a release, mentioning the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde last year and a deadly knife attack at a university in 2017. “I have experienced firsthand the heightened emotions that often occur at polling locations and I will not wait for more violence to act.”

(Full story HERE.)
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

GOP Congressional Candidate Witnesses O'Rourke Violating Election Law At Polling Place

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Republican Candidate For Congress #MonicaDeLaCruz (@monica4congress) Caught @BetoORourke Red-Handed Illegally Electioneering At A Polling Location In #SanJuan #Texas inside the restricted polling markers outside a polling place in front of the San Juan public library.

A video posted on Twitter showed De La Cruz angrily denouncing O'Rourke's speech inside the restricted zone to an unidentified person on the telephone, and to polling site officials.

(Full story HERE.)
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