Texas bars federal election monitors from state polling stations
Texas bars federal election monitors from state polling stations
"Texas tells U.S. Justice Department that federal election monitors aren’t allowed in polling places" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. S...
Texas’ top elections official told the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday its election monitors aren’t permitted in the state's polling places after the federal agency announced plans to dispatch monitors to eight counties on Election Day to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws.
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Sounds like they very explicitly don't want oversight to see something. All the more reason those monitors need to be there.
Either that or because they want to feel like a big boy all mighty and powerful by telling the federal government to kick rocks
I wonder how they'd feel about losing the 37% of the Texas budget that comes from the Feds?
nooooo don't take away my socialism
"MY socialism. Not theirs, no one else can have it."
No one puts baby in the corner
My proposal for the new state motto
The only way that notorious piss-baby, Greg Abbott, can win an election is by telling the fed to fuck off, losing, but then campaigning on both telling the fed to fuck off and taking credit for other people's work.