Texas is ground zero for voter suppression.

[L. Coyote]

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[uponit7771]

1. K&R, Texas is a dictatorship

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texastribune.org/2020/10/19/texas-voting-elections/amp/

It’s harder than in 49 other states, according to a “cost-of-voting index” compiled by political scientists at Northern Illinois University, Jacksonville University and Wuhan University in China.

[Nevilledog]

2. They'll just reject these Dem printed cards

[L. Coyote]

5. How would they ever know who printed them? Anyone can print them.

https://www.votetexas.gov/register/index.html

Ways to Register

To register to vote in Texas, simply complete a voter registration application and return it to your county election office at least 30 days before the upcoming election date. To complete an application, you may:

Complete an application using the SOS ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATION. Simply fill in the required information, print, sign and mail directly to your county election office.

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[Nevilledog]

6. If it's so easy then why the uproar over Texas claiming they're out of paper?

Honest question.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. I wonder if these anti voter initiatives are hurting republicans too? I suspect so, as I have

read about other anti-voter measures put in place in the past, and they found that republican voters were negatively impacted too.

I hope that lawsuits fighting against these obvious voter discrimination efforts (such as not printing voter cards (due to a 'paper shortage', yeah, right)), that the Supreme Court sees past these blatantly anti-voter efforts and supports efforts against these anti-voter initiatives, and once and for all, decides against these anti-voter efforts. After all, the Constitution does say 'We the People' etc.

[Cha]

4. Rt TY.. Bless Texas Dems!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Texas violated voting rights law during redistricting, retiring state GOP senator says

The Texas primary is going to be held on March 1 using the illegal and gerrymandered districts passed by the Texas legislature. There will be a hearing on Senate District 10 but the rest of the gerrymandered districts will be in place for the next two years.

The SCOTUS has gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act which required pre-clearance of districts. The SCOTUS held that partisan gerrymandering is okay and also partially gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by requiring proof of discrimination. There will be a trial in the fall and this statement will used to show intent to discriminate.

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EL PASO — In a sworn declaration submitted as part of an ongoing federal court challenge, a senior Republican state senator with redistricting experience said he believes his party violated federal voting laws when it drew new boundaries for state Senate District 10 in the Fort Worth area.

“Having participated in the 2011 and 2013 Senate Select Redistricting Committee proceedings, and having read the prior federal court decision regarding SD10, it was obvious to me that the renewed effort to dismantle SD 10 violated the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution,” state Sen. Kel Seliger said in a declaration signed in November.

The statement from the Amarillo Republican emerged this week as part of a dayslong hearing before a three-judge panel considering a lawsuit that claims the district was intentionally reconfigured to discriminate against voters of color in Tarrant County.

Under the map passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature, some Black and Hispanic populations previously in District 10 were split into two other districts with majority-white electorates. The Black and Hispanic voters who remain in the newly drawn District 10, in urban areas of south Fort Worth, were lumped in with several rural, mostly white counties to the south and west that drive up the district’s population of white eligible voters while diminishing the number of voters of color.

This trial will be fun to watch.

[L. Coyote]

8. Extreme in the extreme.

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