AUSTIN – Apparently, Texas lawmakers this session did not think election integrity was high on the list.
Ellis Counry State Rep., District 10, Brian Harrison’s HB 5034 related to election integrity never even had a hearing.
Two other bills that did not pass and never made it to the House floor included SB 396, to require the voter registrar to verify a voter’s address and SB 964, was meant to require “not eligible to vote” on the driver’s licenses of non-citizens.
There was also SB 16/HB 5337. This was said by some to be the most thorough proof-of-citizenship proposals introduced anywhere in the country. It went beyond new applicants applying for voter registration and would also have affected 18.6 million voters already registered in Texas.
Harrison said there are almost 3-million non-citizens that have been issued driver’s licenses, CDLs, or IDs in Texas.
“There was a bill that passed out of the senate and it was a version of the bill that should have passed regarding proof of citizenship that should have passed in the house,” Harrison explained.
“Per usual the house chose to do nothing of consequence when it came to election integrity because the democrats do not believe in election integrity and the democrats selected our Speaker (of the House).
Harrison did have a win however when he and Texas Congressman Chip Roy “Took the charge across the whole state to draw attention to these problems in our election system,” he explained.
“Before – if you showed up and, forget not having an ID, if you had an ID that literally said on it you were not a citizen – there were instructions given to allow that person to go ahead and vote.”
Roy and Harrison worked together to highlight the issue prior to the Texas Legislative session beginning in January and took the message to a national audience “thinking it would help us pass a bill to solve this,” Harrison explained.
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