Congresswoman Tenney Applauds Texas Governor's Push for Election Reforms

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-22), co-chair of the House Election Integrity Caucus, today issued the following statement applauding Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Republican members of the state legislature for working to advance election reforms that will better secure elections in the state of Texas.

"Texas Governor Greg Abbott, along with members of the state legislature, are pushing for practical and commonsense reforms that will strengthen the integrity of voting in Texas. I applaud them for doing the right thing. Implementing widely supported safeguards like voter ID laws and ending ballot harvesting will make Texas elections more secure and restore faith in the democratic process.

"Democrats are doing in Texas exactly what they did in Georgia by using disinformation to manufacture a crisis. The Texas legislation is not "un-American" as President Biden disingenuously claims. It offers two weeks of early voting, which is more than in many states, increases minimum voting hours, requires identifying information for mail-in ballots, and bans vote harvesting, among other reforms. Pedaling the false narrative that election reforms are an assault on our democracy did not work in Georgia, and it will not work in Texas. American voters overwhelmingly support commonsense election safeguards. Radical proposals like H.R. 1, which would federalize our elections, are being rejected over and over again by the American people because they understand that the right to vote is sacred and should be protected."

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