Alex Padilla: “Welcoming a thoughtful number of refugees every year is part of our nation’s legacy and an important international…”

I just can’t help but remember, back in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump called the secretary of state of Georgia and said, ‘find me 11,000 more votes.’

Just because your team is losing at halftime doesn’t mean you call timeout and change the rules, or change the referees trying to change the outcome.

The late timing of this announcement threatens the voting rights of more than a hundred thousand Texas voters on the heels of other intentional actions by the state that harm voting rights.

Local officials and potentially impacted voters have real reason to be concerned about the state’s ability to work quickly enough to ensure that all eligible voters who registered can cast their ballot without obstacle.