Did the stupid in DC infect the whole of Greg Abbottâs GOP in Texas? It is like a signal went out to all the cockroaches in this state to come fill our government offices.
Evidently voter suppression is hard nowadays with their antics under scrutiny. Sad.
Government makes an âhonest mistakeâ and all is forgiven in quest to harass/prevent voting. Citizen makes a mistake like being an immigrant, getting naturalized, and then voting and has to ruin days of their lives in fear of being prosecuted. Nice.
It is not an 'honest mistake" to send out official notices without any contact information, or official letterhead. There was plenty of time to have someone proof read the letters. It sounds to me the problem isnât with the voters itâs with the county election officials themselves. Even though the Texas SoS is a corrupt jerk doesnât mean that has to be the way the county election officials conduct themselves.
Now, Now why do the Dims think it is necessary to inform peopleâŚwe got the inter-tubes for that.
(end snark)
Wood County has a population of 44K â of which 35K are of voting age. Itâs 91% white according to Census Bureau.
Honest Mistake = Jim Crow in action
The stupid has never been in short supply in Texas.
The county elections officials are appointed by the county commissioners, who in all counties in Texas, except for the ones holding major cities, are all Repigs. There is no doubt, in my little red county, where the elections office gets its marching orders.
It would be interesting to see whatever instructions were given by the State to the individual counties. It sounds, though, as if it was left to the countiesâ discretion as to how or whether to follow up. Bound to cause a little confusion when you have 254 counties. Youâd think that might be entirely predictable. Youâd think that creating a little panic might have been the entire point.
So maybe it would just be an honest mistake to charge everyone in that office with a conspiracy to deprive people of their civil rights under color of law?
The confusion and chaos caused by Texasâ bombastic voter fraud allegations has manifested in almost every element of the fallout.
The latest example is a voter purge notice sent out by one Texas county that lacked basic contact information or even an official letterhead.
Iâm not sure Iâd attribute this to âconfusion.â 
I said elsewhere that dumping an error ridden list which is then hastily walked back works for the counties who âknowâ what is what, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
And TX has a lot of rural counties who know what is what.
Cc @tierney
Interesting that Travis County is discussed in this suit.
Travis County intends to follow a procedure similar to Smith Countyâs, but it will not
send letters unless and until it complets a manual review of every name on its list. Pursuant to
this manual review, Travis County will determine if any of its voluntary deputy registrars
registered any individual on the list at a naturalization ceremony in the County.83
So now they are contacting all the voluntary deputy registrars too? Thatâs going to be a hell of a lot of people. A friend and neighbor organized the Saturday morning training sessions held every week for something like two straight years at a local church; they deputized literally thousands of people. It was still going strong when they hit 50000 voters registered and that was, Iâm thinking, for 2014.
Obviously, Travis County being Austin, a lot of those registrars were likely students or others who have moved around or to other cities or states. Iâm thinking it may take just a little while to get through that list before the county can start sending those notices to the voters themselves.
The stupid is compounded by the fraud including the Texas AG, currently under felony indictment, who took the Secretary of Stateâs bad records and instructed the County Clerks to send out the notices.
This is the same AG who told Trump that El Paso was crime ridden until the wall was built.
Liars and frauds Trump and Paxton.
No, silly, in america we only jail people for voting illegally. Stripping thousands of voters of the franchise is perfectly ok,. What are you, some kind of commie?
The notice left one citizen mistakenly flagged by the stake feeling âvery worriedâ and a âsense of fear,â according to court documents filed Monday.
I know that I would feel âvery worriedâ and have a âsense of fearâ if I were âflagged by the stake.â It sounds so painful.
This was basically a Ken Paxton attempt at voter suppression fuck up. Ken Paxton is an idiot in addition to being a fucking crook. He is our AG.
It was also lacking âthe response form the recipients were asked to use to reply.â
Whether it was an honest mistake or not, it is a great piece of evidence for a lawsuit asking the courts to block use of the list for any voter purges. The state has not, from what Iâve read, determined that even one of the people named on the list voted illegally. The counties lack the ability and/or resources to properly investigate the names on the list, and it likely is a violation of equal protection to require legally registered voters to take additional stepsâwithout causeâto avoid removal from the voting rolls.
What, just because they selected a bunch of citizens based on former non-citizen status and discriminated against them in the matter of voting, they should get in trouble?
Why yes, yes they should.