17 states had enacted 28 laws this year that restrict access to vote. Overall, state lawmakers have introduced at least 389 restrictive bills in 48 states thus far — yes, thus far, and we’re only in July.
They will just keep piling up.It got so bad in Texas, Democrats in the state legislature fled to Washington, D.C., not only to keep the Texas House from having a quorum and thereby voting to pass its own offensive and obstructive voting laws, but they came to D.C.
to plead — yes, plead — for help from the U.S. Congress.It is bad out there, folks, and options to prevent this viral spread of vicious voting laws are dwindling.