KXAN Austin: Speaker Pelosi pushes voting rights, redistricting reform in Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Many look at Central Texas as the best example of drawing Congressional lines to keep one party out of power. Austin is a Democratic powerhouse but is represented by five Republicans and one Democrat.

Speaker of the United States House of Representative Nancy Pelosi held a press conference in Austin with the lone Austin Democrat, Rep. Lloyd Doggett. They're holding the event to talk about HR 1, a bill in Congress that will reform redistricting and change and protect voters who are foreign-born. The U.S. House is expected to vote on the bill later this week.

She was joined by Mimi Marziana, the President of the Texas Civil Rights Project and Julieta Garibay, co-founder of United We Dream. They are two of the litigants against the Texas Secretary of State over its flawed 'non-citizen' voter check.