Texas Harris County clerk Chris Hollins announced on Monday night that he would be closing nine out of the 10 drive-thru polling places in the county, which encompasses Houston, out of caution after a federal judge smacked down the state GOP’s efforts to throw out more than 125,000 ballots that voters had dropped off at those polling sites.
So the judge managed to fuck with things anyways, forcing last-minute changes to voting sites. Mission accomplished.
How long until SCOTUS takes up this suit? We waiting until Biden or Hegar win the state?
Such shit. One thing Dems can NOT let voters forget is how much the republicans do not want to let people vote.
We should be able to make this leave a lasting mark.
Oh … the are OK with the “right kind” of people voting …
The real question at this point is who do they see as people?
JFC! The judge got 90% of the drive-through sites closed, even while ruling positively in the County Clerk’s favor. 90%!!! If he had just kept himself from waxing eloquent on aspects of the case that were not even ruled on, this would not have happened.
Just think how many voters will decide not to drive halfway across the (large, crowded, busy) county to cast a vote now. Isn’t this exactly what the Supreme Court admonishes judges NOT to do? Make last minute changes during an election? And this is not a marginal effect, it is 90% of drive-through polling places.
This is a gross miscarriage of justice and federal interference in state election matters.
“We’ll be checking bumper stickers on vehicles utilizing drive-thru voting to determine voter eligibility.”
I will be long-dead by-the-time historians give this era of Americana its rightful name: The Civil War. Reconstruction.Jim Crow:__________________.
Wow. But more people have voted so far in Texas than in 2016. So it seems most people who plan to vote other than at the polls have done so.
Nothing like being persona non grata in your own country.
I haven’t seen a single bumper sticker here in Houston. Lots of yard signs, though. (90% Biden-Harris-Hager) The cool new Democratic HQ was vandalized a couple of days ago, but that’s not going to stop the wave, in Harris County, at least. (OOPS! That’s HEGAR)
So, let me see if I got this straight. Closing polling sites is a way to ensure all votes are counted. Huh? Because there are fewer votes to count? Is that right?
A truly worthy “lasting mark” would be non-partisan reform of elections in the USA: non-partisan election commissions, standardized voting procedures, objective and fair allocation of election resources and infrastructure, non-partisan federal oversight… whatever it takes to get rid of partisan political control of elections.
It is easy to blame Trump for all this shit, but voter suppression is a Republican thing. They really believe denying the ability of citizens to vote is a good thing. This should be something that Democrats pound morning, noon and night until Republicans remember they are Americans and the right to vote is an important American thing.
Intimidation comes in many forms - including judicial rulings.
No. The right wing activist federal judge who ruled on this case decided to slip in some extra language to his decision of non-standing by saying that tents are not buildings. So in an abundance of caution the election officials stopped using tents to do drive through voting so that the ballots cast today, after this monster decision, would have the best possible chance of being counted.
However, the Republicans will use this as evidence that the Dems agree with the decision and knew what they were doing was wrong and then try to throw out drive in votes.
Fiction has to make sense or people won’t believe it. Reality has no such constraint.
No argument here. I didn’t mean to imply it was just donnie, but he has done us the favor of being very vocal about what he is doing. The reasoning is all out in the open.
Here’s background on Judge Hanen’s service on the bench! He’s so far out in right-field he’s, in the parking lot, outside the ball field!
