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Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally
(www.texastribune.org)
“Oh did I say have to? I meant be able to.”
The literal grand majority of Americans don't vote anyway. It's fucking disgraceful.
And why is that?
Take your time. Show your work.
Reminder that fascists are attempting to ratfuck our elections and remain in power indefinitely.
You are about to lose your democracy.
Yes…about to…
It's weird how the conservative mind virus, for something that is allegedly soooo popular needs so many assists and cheats to get itself into power...
The fundamental difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Democrats believe they need (to quote Nancy Pelosi) "a strong Republican party" in order to balance the country.
And Republicans don't feel the same way about the Dems.
Nancy's income stream depends on a strong republican party
Th I s is horrif, but it isn't impacted by the mail-in ballot bullshit.
Texas already restricts mail-in voting. During Covid, I had to go vote in-person at a crowded polling station.
TRUMP SHOULD BE ARRESTED
Latinos and other minorities must take over Texas if they ever want to be represented fairly.
Texas is already minority-majority. But much like apartheid regimes in South Africa, the Dominican Republic, and the West Bank, its the settlers who have the military power and the administrative authority.
Until you unfortunately realize that a load of Latinos in the Valley voted for Trump. You can’t fix stupid and voting against your interests
The last I heard about 48% of Latinos voted for Trump. I wonder what percentage of those have college education.
Centrist Democrats have refused to cater to their constituents for decades. They’ve spent all their efforts following the neoliberal economic agenda while only doing performative acts towards the working class and minorities. They’ve been noticeably hostile towards progressives.
ah why didn’t they think of that?
Because they all think that they are the 'good ones'. They need to learn that to the GOP there are no good minorities.
Forcing people to drive to polling stations amounts to a poll tax, imo
It also drastically increases wait times, and the additional time off of work is also a (much larger) form of poll tax. Especially considering how many democrats don’t work jobs where they can just take an entire day off on a whim. In my (conservative leaning) county, I can reliably vote in about 5-10 minutes. And most of that time is just filling in the little bubbles. Last time my wife and I went, there was only one person in line ahead of us. There are enough polling locations that I can expect any wait times to be minimal.
But 50 miles away in the (liberal leaning) city, they have closed so many polling locations that wait times easily stretch into anywhere between 4 to 8 hours. For someone who is working a minimum wage job, it means you’re not voting if you have work that day. Oh, and it’s illegal to hand out water bottles to the people who have been waiting in line in the hot sun for 4+ hours.
Everything’s bigger and dumber in Texas. This won’t be the last state that does this.
He argued that both the switch to county-wide voting in 2019, which allows voters to cast a ballot at any polling site in the county, and the expected low turnout made the cuts appropriate.
Random bit, but as someone from Tarrant County, the assigned polling places thing was really annoying and confusing. Glad they got rid of that.
I think it's more which locations get removed that's the issue.