A Texas Republican urged people to 'read the bill' to prove voter suppression — so John Oliver did it

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A Texas Republican urged people to 'read the bill' to prove voter suppression — so John Oliver did it

The main story on "Last Week Tonight's" first show of the season called the GOP's bluff on their voter suppression laws. State Rep. Matt Schaffer, a Republican from Tyler Texas went on television to tell people upset over the GOP's voter suppression bill to "read the bill. There's no voter...

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Somehow it wouldn't surprise me to find out Rep. Dade Phelan, Rep. Travis Grantham, and State Rep. Matt Schaffer are all closeted self-repressed individuals.

 

[Gomez Adams]

There's a lot of that going on everywhere.

A few weeks back I sort of got into with Gabriel Sterling and Brad Raffensperger. They were defending all of the changes to our voting rules and I simply hit them with this:

You both just got up there a week ago, defended the election results and stated that we had as perfect and fair an election as we've ever had. If that's the case, why the rush to change all the rules?

Crickets.