The governor of Texas has been accused of attempting to make it harder for people of color to vote, after he moved to end one county's 24 hour and drive-through voting.
Greg Abbott, a Republican, appeared on Chris Wallace's Fox News show on Sunday morning.
Republicans in state legislatures have filed scores of elections-related measures this year, some of which stem from baseless claims by former President Donald Trump and his allies challenging the results of the presidential election.
Wallace asked Abbott about his moves to curtail Harris County's experiment with new voting procedures.
'They would ban 24-hour voting and they would ban drive-through voting,' said Wallace.
Greg Abbott, the Republican of Texas, appeared on Fox News on Sunday and was grilled about his move to end experiments expanding access to the polls
'There was no allegation of any fraud in either of those. Harris county, the Houston area, employed both of those and more than half of the voters who showed up were people of color.
'You say you want to make it easier to vote. That's going to make it harder to vote and the question is why make it harder for some Texans to vote unless the point is to suppress voting by people of color?'
Abbott, governor since 2015, denied that he was deliberately suppressing votes.
He argued that Harris county was exceeding its legal limits in bringing in new voting rules.
'It is the states, not counties, that have the authority to regulate elections,' Abbott said, accusing Harris county of having tried 'to create its own election system that had never been used in the state of Texas.'
Asked why he couldn't simply let Harris county continue with the expanded voting system, Abbott said that the same concerns about disenfranchising people were made when voter I.D. laws were introduced.
Voters are seen lining up to vote in Austin, Texas, on November 3, for early voting. The election saw a record-breaking early voter turnout
With an hour left to vote, people wait in line at Manor ISD Administration building on November 3, 2020 in Manor, Texas
'When Texas passed a voter I.D. Law - everyone said the exact same thing, this is going to
