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Texas Senate Passes GOP Voting-Restrictions Bill Despite 15 Hour Filibuster Attempt

State Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, applies lipstick in her 15th hour of filibustering against Senate Bill 1. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune

From TexasTribune.org…

Since before sunset Wednesday, state Sen. Carol Alvarado had been on her feet speaking, not allowed to sit or lean against her desk, on the Senate floor.

Unable to take bathroom breaks or drink water, she had worn a back brace, eyeglasses and running shoes and talked slowly behind a desk stacked with papers and with a microphone in her hand as she mounted a 15-hour filibuster.

The target of her efforts was Senate Bill 1, the GOP’s priority bill that would place new restrictions on voting that many opponents say would disproportionately suppress ballots from voters of color and disabled voters.

But ultimately, her speaking marathon could only delay the passage of the bill in the Republican-controlled Senate. Shortly after she finally stepped away from her desk around 9 a.m., the Senate voted to advance the measure on an 18-11 party-line vote.

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