Texas’ largest county has rejected thousands of absentee ballots and ballot applications due to Republicans’ restrictive new voting law — and now, officials there have asked the Department of Justice for help.
I thought they wanted to secede. Well, they can get on with it and make the rest of us happy.
Harris is a blue county.
Sh-- would have been unreal if ‘45’ was still in charge.
The intention of the law was to reduce democratic turnout and as long that the ballots getting rejected are in Harris, Dallas, Travis and a few other populous counties, Abbot, Paxton and Patrick are going to call it a success. After all those guys don’t even accept that we live in a “democracy” according to them we live in a “republic” and that means it has to be run by Republicans.
SB1 is “forcing voters into a game of gotcha by hiding a section of required personal information under the flap of the required voting envelope.”
Sounds like @tena has some fellow travelers.
DoJ steps in, Supreme Court says “not our problem,” it’s precisely what the state legislature has prescribed and there is no longer any Federal law governing elections.
If I could say go f*ck yourself politely-- I’d try. But your level of ignorance seems to preclude niceties.
We work damn hard in Houston and Harris County to elect to good Dem leaders. We provided over 800k votes for Biden/Harris in 2020.
This reaching out to the DOJ shows our officials are serious about pushing back on SB1.
The sooner they become North Mexico again the better
Thank You, Senators Manchin & Sinema
The journos are going to have to weigh in on the side of civilization and give BothSiderism a rest.
among 9,809 ballots received by the county by that date, a whopping 35.5%, or 3,491 votes, have been flagged for rejection
Well, well. Look where there’s apparently rampant voter fraud.
Texas. I would have guessed Florida ; - )
I suppose it’s anti-climactic to mention Manchin and Sinema. But both should be mentioned non-stop.
The fascist cult continues its relentless march toward voterless ‘democracy’, hoping to install their approved system of allowing cult hierarchy to announce election winners and save citizens the hassle. One can only hope they’ve taken it a step too far and upset even a portion of their base.
Never happen
Please describe they?
Be specific please.
Harris County is a good to very good place to live. The nation’s fourth largest city-- and well-governed. Most folks who live here are blue. And a positive mix of every other hue. 
I have many good friends in Texas, so many in fact, that I don’t understand how they have the state wide politicians they do. But it would kill me - I can’t take the heat.
Good! There has been speculation on the boards that, because Texas sharply restricts who is even eligible to vote by mail, SB1 will hit Republican voters harder than democratic ones.
But any restriction of the franchise is flatly unacceptable. I hope DOJ takes an interest.
Well… there’s one.
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