Published 2 months ago

A new law aimed to increase voting access in rural counties. In South Texas it's having the opposite effect.

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Texas lawmakers last year passed a new law requiring all counties, regardless of population, to comply with extended early voting hours. The law provides very little funding, and San Patricio County's budget won't stretch to support the new requirements at all of the county's previous sites. That means a law intended to give voters in rural areas more opportunities to vote will instead have the opposite effect.

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A new law aimed to increase voting access in rural counties. In South Texas it's having the opposite effect.

Votebeat looks at a new Texas state law that requires small counties to increase early voting days and hours and how some election officials are concerned over potential cost increases.

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