Texas Senate Advances Bills Restricting Voting Access and Policing Elections.

The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would ban countywide polling locations on Election Day, requiring residents to vote at an assigned precinct instead. Larger voting centers would still be permitted during early voting. The bill is part of a larger effort by Republican lawmakers to tighten voting laws in the state. Democrats opposed the bill, arguing that it would strip Texans of a convenient way of voting and put an added burden on already heavily taxed elections administrators. The bill now moves to the House, where an identical bill has not moved in the Elections Committee.