Voting Rights

Prior to his appointment as Texas Secretary of State – John Scott briefly represented Donald Trump's legal effort to challenge the election results in Pennsylvania

The Texas House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1599 Wednesday afternoon, which will make necessary modernization updates to the mail-in ballot process and election systems, improve the online ballot tracker, and enable more Texans to correct defects on mail-in ballots.

Republican supermajorities in the country’s second-most populous state consider ways to criminalize voting and create paths to overturn election results.

Texas lawmakers will hear House Bill 1243, a dangerous elections bill that would increase the criminal penalty of voting violations from a misdemeanor to a second-degree felony, which can carry a punishment of two to 20 years in state prison.