(Texas Tribune) - During the Texas Republican Convention last week, Gov. Greg Abbott publicly backed a push to close primaries and require voters to register with a party."We are going to make clear that in the future, only Republicans vote in Republican primaries," he said Friday, addressing the convention in Houston.

After an unsuccessful legislative push last year to close the primary elections, when voters choose a party's nominees for the November general elections, state Republicans sued to make it happen.

That litigation is still pending in federal court, but Abbott wants state lawmakers to try again.