Texas reaches over 18 million registered voters, the highest it's ever been
Texas reaches over 18 million registered voters, the highest it's ever been
Now, there are 18 million registered voters in Texas, the highest number ever. SMU political scientist Cal Jillson says Hispanics, who used to register at low rates are now signing up in much bigger numbers.
If you live in Texas, make sure to register to vote! The deadline is coming up in a few days on the 7th. Note that for Texas you must register either in person or by mail, you cannot register online unlike most states
Find information on how to register to vote anywhere https://vote.gov/
Ken Paxton will personally close all polling stations if more than 20 people show up to vote
Gonna repeat what I said in a different comment:
Encourage people to try to vote early everywhere. Texas has early in person voting from Oct 21 – Nov 1
If you vote early, you'll have time to come back again in case there's some last minute changes to the polling places open or some other problem. Plus you also don't then have to worry about something like being sick on election day
These are all excellent reasons. If I may add one.
I want to fuck Donald day one. So bad. Fuck him. My rage seethes waiting to be released into my ballot.
But otherwise spot on!
My body is ready
he would have his ass kicked if he tried it here
I have never understood why you need to register ahead of time to vote in US. It seems like an unnecessary blocker. In Denmark you just show up on the day, state your SSN, show ID and get a ballot.
You need to do it because it's an unnecessary blocker. That's the point. Poor people disproportionately struggle to jump through the hurdles in place for voting, and Poor people disproportionately vote D. R loves to make voting harder under the auspices of "fraud prevention".
Also a lot of federal centralization didnt happen until the great depression, we are a federation of states meaning that historically it most shit was handled by the states and not in a states rights way but a who runs the local library sort of way. It was easier bureaucracatically as well allowing the feds to focus on other things.
This is also why random bits of bureaucracy is not standardized across all states, like the DMV sure most states got the memo but then you have whatever the fuck Washington is doing.
R loves to make voting harder under the auspices of “fraud prevention”.
They say, while their supporters are the ones committing all of the fraud.
I have never understood why you need to register ahead of time to vote in US. It seems like an unnecessary blocker.
No, you absolutely do understand perfectly.
Yes, it's utterly stupid. One reason I can point to is that the US never really had a national ID system. The social security number is a hack to get something along the lines of an ID, but it's not reliable enough to make it viable for elections.
It's not "stupid." To call it stupid is to gloss over the fact that it's a calculated, deliberate, malicious tactic of targeted voter disenfranchisement meant to swing elections.
gives all the smaller governmental departments(like the municipal courts) time to assimilate your info for future contacts like jury duty
Sounds like the least cynical answer I have gotten here.
it is, and if you notice the states that make it difficult, it's clearly the intent behind it as well. The goal is to make it hard for specific demographics to be able to vote because they very regularly vote in favor of the opposition of that state.
Sorry, your upvotes was 69 before me.
Has piss baby Ken Paxton cut voting to only one polling locale yet?
Encourage people to try to vote early everywhere. Texas has early in person voting from Oct 21 – Nov 1
If you vote early, you'll have time to come back again in case there's some last minute changes to the polling places open or some other problem. Plus you also don't then have to worry about something like being sick on election day
you can vote at any polling place within your county if you vote early
Early Voting Locations
Voting during the early voting period couldn’t be easier and more convenient! Registered and eligible voters may vote at ANY early voting location located in their county of residence. Whether you are at home, work or out running errands, you will be able to find a polling place near you. Early voting locations will be populated in our search site "My Voter Portal" two days prior to the first day of early voting. Here, you can enter your Name, County, Date of Birth and ZIP code to look up your registration information and find your nearest polling location. You may want to contact the Early Voting Clerk for State and County Elections in your county for early voting locations. Also, many newspapers publish early voting polling locations.
Note: Polling place hours vary at each early voting location.
AG Paxton's new rule would be that the entranceway of every polling location in Texas can only be open once every 10 minutes for 30 seconds at a time, to prevent voter fraud of course.
Ummmm.
In 2020, 11 million people voted.
Texas is going blue. Vote!
Another million might've made us blue already. Trump had the smallest GOP margin of victory in Texas in decades! Texas picked Carter, LBJ, and JFK for President! If Harris wins Texas then there's basically no way Trump can sue his way to victory.
"Nuh uh, it was the illegal immigrants we didn't kill with the razor wire", Ken Paxton after Harris wins Texas, probably.
Let's turn the dial as far as we can to the blue side! No complacency!
I encourage people not only to check your registratio, but full on order a new ID, confirming it j’s your correct name, address, and a updated picture it poseible.
Understand, Texas has realistically been blue since at least 2000. Voter turnout is an existential threat to the Texas republicans, and they know it.
Check your voter registration? Yes, absolutely. Order a new ID? Not sure about that.
It takes time for things like that to process. I recently updated my driver's license online and it took several weeks before the new card arrived. In the interim, I was supposed to print a piece of paper to serve as my license. Sure, it's supposed to be a legal document, but in an election where Republicans will nitpick anything in order to disqualify voters, it's easy to imagine a registered voter being turned down for using a flimsy piece of paper instead of a driver's license.
I'm not saying not to update your ID if you need to. Absolutely make sure that your information is accurate and up-to-date. But if your existing ID is accurate, what would be the point of ordering a new one?
hopefully theyre all antiorange
Fucking hell yes. Hoping that's our side and not maggots.
Encouraging news about that from the article
The biggest registration gains have been in the Democratic stronghold of Harris County and along the I-35 corridor, which now leans blue
Harris County.
Ha.
Awesome! That's on me, should have read the article. Thanks for taking the time!
Yeah. That's how population growth is...
It'll be newsworthy when total votes/voters go down over time, this is like being surprised 12:30 pm happens after noon everyday.
The voter registration numbers are exceeding the population changes in Texas
Also younger voters, especially young women are much more invested in politics and more likely to vote than ever.
That much voter fraud huh?
Pics or it didn't happen