When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed the state’s big new election bill, SB 1, into law in September — part of a Trumpian wave of new election restrictions across the country — the governor said the bill would help rebuild “trust” in the state’s elections.
Feature, not bug.
I don’t think they even care at this point if their own voters are held up, or if their votes get flagged and discarded as long as it burns the Democrats more.
Undermining faith in the system while claiming to bolster it is just gravy. Constant agitation is their mantra now, and every cult worth its weight has had a helluva catchy hook. Fascism isn’t free - you have to really want it, and they do.
“It’s like we’re going back in time," one voting rights advocate observed
Yes, it is going back in time, to the era of Jim Crow. What’s next, a return to slavery?
I’m puzzled on the criteria to be “first in the nation” primary. This is Wisconsin’s schedule:
Spring Primary Election - Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Spring Election - Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Middle of February in Wisconsin increases chances of low voter turnout due to inclement weather? Just spitballin’…
“I was hoping that the Senate would finally pass something and I would quit having to have these little fights all the time,” she said. “It’s like we’re going back in time, and it’s very hard. -Chimene
Wasn’t that the point? To go back in time and disenfranchise those voters.
And clearly SB 1 was written by a 20 y/o. Only a 20 y/o would know what ID# they used when registering in the last 5-10 years.
Ooo, fight!
Also, the MyVote website has had incorrect information on polling places (now corrected) and initially on when absentee ballots would be sent. I requested my ballot on 1/6 (online) and it was approved the same day. It was processed yesterday, 1/24 and mailed today, 1//25. Considering what happened with delayed/lost absentee ballots in 2020 in Wisconsin, that doesn’t leave much room for error (7 days to you, 7 days to return by mail, don’t forget to have your vote witnessed).
Right now, a judge has granted a stay on the drop box ban for the 2/15 primary, as well as the restriction that only the voter may drop off their own ballot. Hopefully that holds!
Reminder that the great majority of Texans are not eligible to vote by mail in the first place, and that age 65+ is far and away the largest group of voters who are eligible to vote by mail. So by all means, please keep punching yourselves in the dick, Republican legislators.
As I understand it, Texas has open primaries, so all this voter suppression will help the GQPers who vote in the Dem primary pick the worst candidate for us.
Judges, probably. At least that’s how MI does it. Also, first in nation is only relevant to presidential primaries.
Dipshits. Just based on demographics, SB1 may be disqualifying more GOP voters than Democratic voters. Kharmic Justice, if you ask me.
Just remember, the Stanford-Benet IQ distribution is a bell-shaped normal distribution with a mean IQ of 100. Half the peeps are below 100 and half are above. Biden isn’t wrong - you can guess which side of the mean the Trumpers occupy by what they say and do.
Texas is one screwed up, toxic mess, by the Repubs own making.
Except, in texas, a 20 year old would have to be disabled or serving overseas to vote by mail.
In ours here in Kenosha county it is for the “non-partisan” county executive as well as various challenged city aldermanic and county board supervisor positions.
Not the way Matt wrote it in the article -
But with Texas’ first-in-the-nation March 1 primary elections rapidly approaching
New Jersey has done the total opposite. All mail-in in 2020, they dialed it back last year and opened the polls, but everybody was still eligible to vote by mail. No restrictions.
Now I’m on the list to get a mail-in ballot every time. Then I take it to the County Board of Elections drop box in front of the town hall, not trusting the USPS with it.
Great Red v. Blue backgrounds, and dour pics v. confident pics!!
Texas corruption is legendary. Ted Cruz even wants to make bribery of public officials legal. Move over, Pakistan.
(Some clerks have advised voters to put down every number they can, for the best chance of a match.)
This is simply unacceptable and needs to be challenged in court to have a stay until clear rules for all can be established. Where is the US Attorney General?
