Or maybe it's not such a coincidence. It'll be impossible to know for sure, conveniently enough.
Conservatives know that this could be a final battle for all the marbles, to end America's democracy, and they will try all kinds of crazy shit you wouldn't have imagined to throw this election. The classical voter suppression tactics, "poll watchers," and terribly coincidental website outages are just the appetizers. Just before reading this article I saw news of fake ballot drop boxes in California. [cnn.com] Vote by mai
I'd like to vote by mail, but I'm under 65 years old, so that's not allowed in my state. I'd like to vote early, but my early voting location is at a church that's only open for a few hours on Sundays. I'm guessing it'll be packed. I couldn't make this shit up [harrisvotes.com] - look at Location #73. The Republican party has also filed a lawsuit [click2houston.com] to close the next-nearest location, #75. So it's looking like I'll either have to borrow a car, or pack indoors with the masses on election day.
It is clear the republicans in TX are suppressing votes in the blue metros. Abbott stopping ballot boxes except the one at the county clerk's office is an attempt to make it harder to return ballots in the metros. What houston has 1M+ residents who need to show up to one location? Crazy. Before the governor's order, I think travis county had like 10 locations you could drop off ballots. All staffed by the clerk's office and the staff would validate the dropped off ballot. So weak argument that fraud is more
People have been predicting "Texas turns blue" for 20 years, so it might sound passe. But one day it really will happen, and the Republicans will shit a brick. They've been toying with voter suppression for years, but it's really kicked into overdrive this time. It's clear they're worried. All the stops are getting pulled out in preparation, and every step will be taken to invalidate it once it happens.
By the way, there's some Tea Party clownpirate with an eyepatch who represents me in Congress. No, really.
It really could happen this year I think. The county clerk reported 96 or 97% of residents who can register to vote have done so. By 5PM today, the first day of early voting, the clerk reported some 25,000 had already voted. If all of travis votes, a very blue area, and Houston and Dallas do similar, it will be tough to counter.
Not sure what that means. In my county well over 150% of resident who can register have done so. In fact we have more people registered to vote than live bodies of all ages. It's too dangerous to clean up the voting roles, so they don't.
In texas I think it is important. The state recently got sued (and lost) because it was removing live people from voting rolls for invalid reasons. But I think you missed the part about how many early voted on the 1st day to the point there were 2 hour lines to vote. And before Abbott realized the mess 2020 was going to be for the republicans, he extended early voting an extra week (back in may I think) and the TX GOP sued the governor to rescind the extra week in September. The courts even in Texas figured
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
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Or maybe it's not such a coincidence. It'll be impossible to know for sure, conveniently enough.
Conservatives know that this could be a final battle for all the marbles, to end America's democracy, and they will try all kinds of crazy shit you wouldn't have imagined to throw this election. The classical voter suppression tactics, "poll watchers," and terribly coincidental website outages are just the appetizers. Just before reading this article I saw news of fake ballot drop boxes in California. [cnn.com] Vote by mai
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I'd like to vote by mail, but I'm under 65 years old, so that's not allowed in my state. I'd like to vote early, but my early voting location is at a church that's only open for a few hours on Sundays. I'm guessing it'll be packed. I couldn't make this shit up [harrisvotes.com] - look at Location #73. The Republican party has also filed a lawsuit [click2houston.com] to close the next-nearest location, #75. So it's looking like I'll either have to borrow a car, or pack indoors with the masses on election day.
Next stop, Belarus.
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People have been predicting "Texas turns blue" for 20 years, so it might sound passe. But one day it really will happen, and the Republicans will shit a brick. They've been toying with voter suppression for years, but it's really kicked into overdrive this time. It's clear they're worried. All the stops are getting pulled out in preparation, and every step will be taken to invalidate it once it happens.
By the way, there's some Tea Party clownpirate with an eyepatch who represents me in Congress. No, really.
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