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Supreme Court of Texas is interfering with the right to vote!
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Melon
(1,390 posts)Coventina
(29,580 posts)So now there is an order to "separate" the "regular time" ballots from the "extended time" ballots, but probably no way of doing that.
All to sow confusion and make elections in "urban" areas seem suspect.
Melon
(1,390 posts)The line becomes too long, so a polling person stops new people from entering the line after 7pm. This is correct. Anyone in line can vote. This doesnt disenfranchise anybody. The polls close at 7pm. I voted last presidential 45 minutes after polls officially closed.
Coventina
(29,580 posts)because there was mass voter confusion caused by the Republican Party.
Paxton, evil shit that he is, appealed that to the TX Supreme court and they put a stay on that order, resulting in mass confusion in which ballots would be accepted and which not.
Bettie
(19,563 posts)and it caused confusion. They were going to let voting go on until 9 because of that. The TX supreme court decided that can't happen, so they said close at 7.
SheltieLover
(79,490 posts)Someone is afraid Crockett might win.
And the moron ho bought eps ranch has 60% of the votes. Deplorables.
Marcuse
(8,923 posts)In It to Win It
(12,611 posts)Coventina
(29,580 posts)Greywing
(1,177 posts)Probably has information that Dallas-R primary votes favoring Cornyon by a large margin.
Wiz Imp
(9,685 posts)so the Republican primary was always going to go to a runoff. Cornyn could get every single vote in Dallas county and it would still go to a runoff.
Greywing
(1,177 posts)Republican Party appeal from what Ive been able to read so far.
Orrex
(66,932 posts)Come on, Rapture!
summer_in_TX
(4,106 posts)Day voting to be back in each voter's precinct. Many counties had moved to a Vote Center model where voters could vote at any Vote Center in the county on Election Day. But with R's insisting on going backward to what they claim will be "more secure elections" back in each voters' home precinct, they forced Election Offices to do the same for Dems in that county. Dallas was one that went backwards, and Williamson County was another. But Dallas is so populated that it was a special nightmare.
On top of that, the Secretary of State refused to let Elections Administrators mail out the new voting certificates (we get new ones every even-numbered year). With redistricting many voters did not know their new Congressional Districts or any other precinct information.
One poor guy interviewed on NPR couldn't find out where he was supposed to vote so he went to his last polling location. They sent him to another one they said was where he had to vote. But when he got to that one, they sent him to a third polling place. Royal clusterf*ck.
Republicans were pushing to do that in Hays County where I live, which would have compelled us to vote in our individual precincts too. Luckily they eventually were persuaded not to do it. So we got to stay with the Vote Centers and vote anywhere in the county.