August 28, 2021 by Texas Top News
Texas Republicans clash over the measure to prevent innocent mistakes from being prosecuted as election fraud
The Texas Senate is arguing with a bipartisan overnight incorporation into the Republican Party’s primary election law that sought to prevent cases like that of Crystal Mason, a black woman from Fort Worth who was sentenced to five years in prison for voting illegally, though he has said he did not know he was not eligible to vote and the ballot never counted.
Senator Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, said Friday in a tweet that the amendment was his “only objection” to the bill, which would otherwise have been on its way to the governor’s table.
Instead, he will now address a committee of members of each chamber that will negotiate their differences and present a new final bill. Hughes did not respond to any requests for comment.
The amendment was written by Rep. Briscoe Cain, a Deer Park Republican who had been working on it for months with Rep. John Bucy III, an Austin Democrat. The author of the House, Rep. Andrew Murr, of R-Junction, passed the amendment on Thursday, which passed without debate.
Cain could not be reached on Friday, but said Thursday in an interview that he was proposing it because “it’s the right thing to do.”
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