Texas Republicans propose a Florida-style election police force and harsher penalties for illegal voting

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Texas Republicans are laying the groundwork to move quickly on a number of new changes to the state’s voting laws, including a proposal to create an election police force like the one Florida enacted before the 2022 midterms.

in 2018 to five years in prison for attempting to vote while on supervised release from prison. She says she didn’t know a previous felony conviction made her ineligible to cast a ballot in 2016., in the nearly two years since, have been vocal about their desire to re-establish those violations as felonies.

Texas Reps. Andrew Murr and Craig Goldman, and Texas Sen. Bryan Hughes — the authors of similar bills — did not respond to calls and emails from NBC News requesting comment.would allow the state attorney general to issue civil penalties against local prosecutors who do not enforce or prosecute election and voting crimes of up to $25,000 per violation.

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