Talarico Says Texas SB1 Stacks Deck in $40 Million Senate Bid

4 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 27

$40 million-raising Democrat James Talarico said Texas election laws mean he must win by more than in a “completely free and fair” race as he challenges Republican Ken Paxton for Senate.
SB1 sits at the center of his complaint: the law requires specific ID numbers for voting and registration, while banning drive-through voting and unsolicited ballot-application mailings.
Talarico argued those rules amount to voter suppression in one of the country’s hardest states to vote in, saying low turnout has helped lock Democrats out of statewide office since 1994.
Turnout data in the report complicates that case, showing Texas still ranks near the bottom nationally but posted 56.6% participation in the last presidential election and 41.8% in the 2022 midterms—both above several prior cycles.
Republicans seized on the remarks, with an RNC spokesperson tying Talarico’s past votes against stricter noncitizen-voting penalties to a broader GOP push for tougher election-integrity laws.

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