The Biden administration on Thursday filed a third lawsuit over voting rights in Texas, keeping America's biggest red state at the center of a fight over new and in many cases more restrictive election laws passed last year by Republicans.
The newest challenge by the Justice Department, which seeks to undo newly drawn county precincts in the tourist hub of Galveston, is the first under Biden to take aim at local voting changes in Texas. But the claims -- that Black and Hispanic voters will be disenfranchised -- are the same.
Galveston County, which includes the popular island, is divided into four precincts, only one of which had a majority of Black and Hispanic residents. New maps approved by the county's governing board last year made white voters the majority in all precincts. The county is heavily Republican; former President Donald Trump carried it with 60% of the vote in 2020.Download NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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