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.
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
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.
pretty sure you can't tell the federal government 'no', here. and besides, who else is gonna help you count past '1'?
Elections in America are run by and certified by the States. The Federal government has laws on campaign finance (FEC) when the elections are held and to be certified by, and who is eligible to be elected.
If a state wants to refuse access to monitors they can. It's absolutely ignorant to refuse monitoring as it would only help to prove a fair election to have them there. However, under the constitution it is the right of a state to verify their own electoral process.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_States
It’s absolutely ignorant to refuse monitoring as it would only help to prove a fair election to have them there.
That's exactly why they're kicking them out: they want to cast doubt on the fairness of the election, so that they can manufacture excuses to throw out votes in Democrat-leaning ares, make it easier for Trump's lawsuits challenging the results to succeed, etc.
Hey! You're wrong for more than one reason:
- We're Texas and we can do whatever we want! 1+1. We can too count good!
I once counted to 23 by taking off my shoes. Would have been 25 if it hadn't been for that firework accident at the meth lab.
What a dystopian and normal headline.