The Notly-Anticipated Debut Of The Texas Voting Law

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🗓️ 15 February 2022

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Monday marked the start of in-person early voting in Texas ahead of the state’s March 1st primary. Texas is just one of nearly 20 states that will hold elections this year with more restrictive voting laws in place, a result of Republican-led efforts to validate former President Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election. James Slattery, a senior staff attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, joins us to discuss what’s happening in the state, what’s to come and what the rest of the country can anticipate as we head into the midterm elections.

And in headlines: The U.S. closed its embassy in Kyiv, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the country’s Emergencies Act for the first time ever, and a judge said he would throw out Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against the New York Times.

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, February 15th. I'm Gideon Resnick.
0:08.7	And I'm Josie Duffy-Race. And this is What a Day.
0:11.8	The podcast that got in between Kanye West and Julia Fox, because they were both so in
0:16.4	love with it.
0:17.4	Yes, do not believe the tabloids they broke up because of a love triangle involving our
0:22.0	podcast.
0:23.0	In addition to news, we are interested in home wrecking.
0:26.0	We embrace chaos at what?
0:27.7	It's true.
0:28.7	On today's show, the US relocated its embassy in Ukraine for the safety of diplomats, plus
0:35.5	Canada's Justin Trudeau invoked a never-used act to override certain civil rights and to
0:40.4	clear out protesters.
0:42.0	But first, yesterday marked the start of in-person early voting in Texas ahead of the
0:45.9	state's March 1st primary. It also gave the rest of the country the first look at the
0:50.3	effects of Senate Bill 1, the state's restrictive voting legislation.
0:54.3	One of many bills to be introduced after the 2020 presidential election, SB1 banned drive
0:58.5	through an overnight early voting hours, made already difficult and restrictive vote-by-mail
1:02.7	rules all the more so, gave partisan poll watchers more freedom inside polling locations,
1:08.4	and established criminal penalties for certain kinds of voter assistance.
1:11.8	It's all very bad. This was the bill that was so contentious that it led to a democratic
1:16.5	walk out from the legislature last year.
1:19.0	Yeah, and the results so far have been as bad as we, I think everybody else has come to
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