The Texas voting lie

It explicitly forbids election officials implementing practices not contemplated under the state’s election statutes, as sometimes happened during the pandemic. In many counties, it will extend the daily minimum time for early voting by one hour. In certain circumstances, by the way, employers are required to give employees time off to go vote. Its provisions for increased security and transparency are hardly draconian. Among other things, it would require voters to write a driver’s license number or other identifier on absentee ballots, matching the existing voter-ID requirement for registering to vote and voting in person. It would ban public officials from sending out unsolicited mail-in ballots, a commonsense provision to keep excess ballots from floating around. Certainly, it’s not too much to ask that people affirmatively request their mail-in ballots.