Dallas Morning News: Controversial Texas voting bill likely dead this year after failing to be set for debate

AUSTIN — Some of your favorite Game of Thronescharacters weren’t the only ones left for dead Sunday night.

Just before the HBO show aired its much-anticipated finale, Texas Democrats marked the death of a divisive piece of legislation they argued would have suppressed voter turnout. The bill had a quiet end, killed by a House committee that decided against scheduling it for debate in the final days of the 2019 session. …

“This is a huge win for voting rights and against voter suppression,” Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas, said in a prepared statement Sunday. “These fights are not over and we continue to be vigilant in watching for attempts to amend pieces of SB 9 onto other bills.”