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Texas GOP's new voting restrictions on verge of approval

by Paul J. Weber
| May 30, 2021 5:06 AM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans in the Texas Senate muscled one of the most restrictive new voting laws in the U.S. to the cusp of the governor's desk early Sunday, approving fewer ways to cast a ballot and more criminal penalties after rushing the bill to the floor in the middle of the night.

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