{"id":1357526,"date":"2022-03-03T20:07:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T01:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357526"},"modified":"2022-03-03T20:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T01:07:59","slug":"texas-sees-higher-voter-turnout-after-election-integrity-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-sees-higher-voter-turnout-after-election-integrity-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Sees Higher Voter Turnout After Election Integrity Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-sees-higher-voter-turnout-after-election-integrity-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357526&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Voters-in-TX-Primary-Election-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Texas\u2019s first in the nation primary election saw an increase in voter turnout Tuesday night, shattering the 2018 midterms following the passages of the Lone Star State\u2019s\u00a0Senate Bill 1 last year \u2014 the same\u00a0common-sense election integrity legislation that Democrats fought against,\u00a0claiming \u201cvoter suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lone Star State\u2019s Tuesday night primary election \u2014 the first major election since the state\u2019s\u00a0election integrity legislation was signed into law \u2014\u00a0ran smoothly as polling locations appeared not to have reported any negligible issues.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0primary election\u00a0turnout saw over a 300,000 vote increase from the 2.56 million votes in 2018 to 2.93 million votes in 2022, in addition to polling places reporting very few issues.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>This comes after Democrats claimed that the new law would have made voting harder last year. In fact, in a revolt to halt the legislative voting process for the bill, some Texas Democrats fled the state so the state GOP would not have the quorum needed to vote, as\u00a0Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/12\/maskless-democrats-abscond-from-texas-to-protest-election-integrity-laws\/\">reported<\/a>. However, the Democrats returned to the Lone Star State in the end, and the bill was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/31\/texas-legislature-passes-election-integrity-legislation\/\">passed<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/07\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-signs-election-integrity-bill\/\">signed<\/a> into law.<\/p>\n<p>However, Democrats \u2014 such as Texas\u2019s Democrat gubernatorial nominee Robert Francis \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke and failed 2020 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/04\/stacey-abrams-voter-integrity-laws-subversion-american-democracy\/\">claimed<\/a> that the election integrity bills across the country would suppress votes. Instead, the number of voters increased.<\/p>\n<p>Since its passage, the law has since\u00a0strengthened voter ID requirements,\u00a0extending early voting to happen on the weekends,\u00a0cracked down on partisan ballot harvesting, and\u00a0mandated increased bipartisan poll observation \u2014 which the\u00a0Republican National Committee (RNC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/01\/exclusive-rnc-deploying-hundreds-of-pollwatchers-dozen-attorneys-across-texas-for-primary-day-election-integrity-push\/\">revealed exclusively to Breitbart News<\/a> that they\u00a0spent months investing in election integrity across the state ahead of Tuesday. Breitbart News reported on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The RNC told Breitbart News the committee hired many\u00a0in-state election integrity directors, in-state election integrity counsels, and has recruited\u00a0thousands of volunteers to poll-watch and ensure transparency across the board in Texas in accordance with the RNC\u2019s election integrity program.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s effort successfully recruited over\u00a0260 poll watchers to be at over\u00a0240 polling locations on election day to cover 100 percent of the over\u00a0480 target poll watching shifts. They also have recruited nearly 200 poll watchers\u00a0at 125 polling locations throughout the early voting process, covering 100 percent of the target early-voting poll watching shifts.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the committee has acquired over 1,500 poll workers at 810 polling locations on election day to cover 100 percent\u00a0over 1,600 poll working shifts, in addition to\u00a0over 920 poll workers at 90 locations throughout the early voting process,\u00a0covering 100 percent of target early-voting poll working shifts.<\/p>\n<p>The RNC will also have 12 local\u00a0volunteer attorneys throughout Texas and have a dozen on-the-ground staffers between the RNC and Republican Party of Texas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result of having nigher turnout after the Democrats claimed that it would cause for there to be voter impression,\u00a0RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel questioned the Democrats by saying: How many more times are Democrats going to tell the same lie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen states like Georgia and Texas pass smart election integrity legislation, they see higher turnout and fewer issues at the polls,\u201d the chairwoman added in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s not worth paying attention to Democrats and their corporate media allies who hyperventilate about made-up voter suppression \u2013 Republicans are busy doing actual work to improve our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas\u2019s first in the nation primary election saw an increase in voter turnout Tuesday night, shattering the 2018 midterms following the passages of the Lone Star State\u2019s\u00a0Senate Bill 1 last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}