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“Requiring statewide candidates to win the popular vote and also win the majority of counties is a thinly-veiled attempt to disenfranchise the millions of Black and Brown Texans who are clustered in our large, metro counties," said Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas.

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.