In addition to race-based gerrymandering, Republicans in Texas have closed and are closing polling places in minority neighborhoods, meaning people have to travel much farther to vote. At the same time, they are opening more polling places in White neighborhoods, to make things easier. Under new laws, voters with disabilities will be required to prove they can't make it to the polls before they can get mail-in ballots. County election officials won’t be able to keep polling places open late to give voters like shift workers more time to cast their ballots. Partisan poll watchers will be allowed to video record (intimidating) voters who receive help filling out their ballots at a polling place. Drive-thru voting would be outlawed. And local election officials may be forbidden from encouraging Texans to fill out applications to vote by mail, even if they meet the state’s strict eligibility rules Legislative analysis shows that all these acts negatively affect minority voters.