. >> gop texas representative travis clardy argues his party wanted uniform voting across texas. >> iking to election administrators and county clerks who run elections and the feedback on that was, it is not feasible, you have to have trained election workers, people to man the polls. >> but they had the people there. during the pandemic, people were able to do it. >> but in harris county, with those people. but you also can create opportunities for mischief. >> again, there is no evidence that happened with 24-hour voting or drive-through voting or anywhere in the state of texas. >> republicans who are backing these new laws in texas say it's not about targeting harris county, it's about enacting uniform laws. >> i think that's a convenient response. harris county has a population greater than 25 states. a small rural county with only a couple of hundred people is not going to need to employ all the same strategies that a harris county or dallas or austin are going to have to use to make sure that all of their residents have access to the ballot. >> the new law also makes it a felon