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I would love to see the satanic temple (last I knew still formally a recognized church) bring suit to force equal representation on these things.
Not the first time the bible babies have tried this and won't be the last, but keep forcing them to sit amongst all their world peers when they do to remind them others exist.
This legislature has decided to destroy the hemp industry instead of taxing it and to move the state closer to a theocracy.
The legislative districts are too gerrymandered to turn the majority, so we have to turn state-wide seats first. And the big three executive branch offices have their elections in presidential mid-terms when turnout is low. Abbot won in 2023 by about 1.1M votes. In 2024 about 7.3M registered voters didn't cast a ballot. Even turning in an empty ballot to protest is better than not voting at all, because it shows you're engaged in the process. Just fucking go out and vote already.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/06/texas-voter-turnout-election-2024-registration/ https://www.npr.org/2022/11/08/1134832026/texas-governor-election-results-greg-abbott-beto-orourke
During the last state wide races the Republicans won by like 10 points across the board. I don't know if gerrymandering is that significant of a factor.
I think the gerrymandering helps fuel the "my vote won't matter" mentality that keeps people at home. I think wording like "winning by 10 points" instead of "winning with 23.6% of registered voters to Beto's 18.8% of registered voters" also helps to fuel the apathy. Only 5% of registered voters showing up could have changed the outcome. That 10 point margin was about 1.1M out of ~8M votes cast with 7M registered voters not voting. Ten points sounds like a huge margin, but it's considerably less impressive when you look at the raw numbers of registered voters sitting things out, not even factoring in eligible but unregistered.
Texastan