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EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder

by Acacia Coronado
| June 1, 2021 12:03 AM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas took a major step Sunday toward becoming the nation’s largest state where the GOP is making voting harder following the 2020 elections , with the Senate approving a bill that would empower poll watchers, create criminal penalties and add new restrictions on where, when and how to vote.

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