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October 2, 2020

Texas Republican Governor Orders Closure of Absentee Ballot Drop-Off Sites
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In Texas, Republican Governor Greg Abbott issued a proclamation Thursday
limiting absentee ballot drop-off locations to just one per county, in
the latest effort by Texas Republicans to make it harder for people to
vote - especially in urban areas home to a greater proportion of
Democrats. Abbott's proclamation leaves 4.5 million residents of Harris
County with just a single location to drop off their completed ballots.
This is Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center's voting rights
program.

Myrna Pérez: "We're obviously concerned that any additional barrier to
the ballot box are going to hurt those members of our community that
have been traditionally disenfranchised: poor folks, people of color,
students - folks who traditionally have had a harder time overcoming the
kind of barriers that have been placed in front of them systematically."



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