BY NATALIA CONTRERAS, VOTEBEAT AND THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
Read this full article: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/06/early-voting-texas-2024-changes/
Texas lawmakers last year passed a new law requiring all counties, regardless of population, to comply with extended early voting hours at all sites. The law provides very little funding, and Hill’s budget won’t stretch to support the new requirements at all of the county’s previous sites. That means a law intended to give voters in rural areas more opportunities to vote will instead have the opposite effect, as cash-strapped small counties shut down sites when they don’t have the budget to meet the new requirements. …
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