Texas Democrats call for US backup in voting rights fight

After fleeing the Texas legislature, Democrats call on President Biden and the United States Congress to counter state voting restrictions.

Texas Democrats paralysed the state legislature on Tuesday as Republicans sought to pass new legislation that would tighten voting rules in the United States state, part of a nationwide wave of Republican bills to restrict voting at the state level. “Texas Republicans have failed Texas. Texas Republicans don’t want free and fair elections,” Texas state House Representative Toni Rose, a leader of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, told a media conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. “House Bill 3 puts deliberate barriers to voting, to make it harder for Texans to cast just a free, safe, and equal vote. House Bill 3 is an attack on voters’ freedoms, and democracy,” Rose said.