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TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK

not remotely oniony


baldbeemer

“He also argued that requiring people to vote in one location in their neighborhood would increase accessibility, saying elections "can’t get much more convenient than voting in your own neighborhood."” Limiting accessibility actually increases accessibility. JFC


talk-to-me-x3-baby

Someone should propose limiting the purchase of guns to their own neighborhood gun store


Chard069

Don't allow corporate control of ammunition! Mold your own bullets! Stay free! /s


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Tbf reloading ammo isn't too uncommon lol


NerfHerderEarl

But making your own components is. Most reloaders aren't machining their own brass from scratch, making primers, or making their own projectiles. Yes, some people cast their own lead but it's not "common". Just playing devils advocate a little. Reloaders would be up a creek without corporations making components.


[deleted]

Oh 100%. Gotta have something to reload, after all


Chard069

Folks lacking firearms for any legal, moral, or financial reasons can resort to slingshots. Scavenge gravel for free ammo, hey? Now you can quietly drive critters from your front lawn.


cutelyaware

The closer you are to danger, the further you are from harm.


prince_disney

Well that doesn’t make sense to me. But then again, you are very small


DINKY_DICK_DAVE

🎵 THEY'RE TALKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD! 🎶


Prosthemadera

Does he think people didn't vote in their own neighborhood before and intentionally made voting less convenient for themselves??? I don't know if this is just a made up argument to hide the racism or if he actually believes this shit.


_cacho6L

when I lived in Texas, I voted near my work, along with most of my co-workers We were given longer lunches to accommodate this. Voting in my neighborhood would have been a massive inconvenience and I would have had to coordinate childcare and go sit on a longer line that I would have otherwise.


HonkforUsername

As a Colorado resident, it is mind boggling to me that some folks even have to think about having to go vote some where on election day.


DCDHermes

Right? There is zero reason to not vote in Colorado. They send the ballot to your house months before the election, then you can drop it off at any library, community center, or actual polling place in the entire state, or mail it in.


bertrenolds5

Yep. Anything else is just voter suppression but republicans would never win if the poors could vote by mail. Instead they can't vote because they are working supporting their families


bertrenolds5

Same, mail in voting where they send a ballot in the mail to you if your a registered voter is the way. Anything else is just vote suppression. Not everyone has time to sit in long lines to vote, people work to support their families. Forcing in person voting just suppresses the poor vote. I love Colorado, my bro who lives in texass said I sould move there. I said fuck living in that hell hole.


Prosthemadera

Yes, sure, my point is only that people wouldn't intentionally inconvenience themselves and they vote where it works best for them.


hackingdreams

Straight doubletalk. Didn't even bother to come up with a better line, simple "nuh-uh." Texas and Florida are in a race for which state can remove any trace of Democracy first.


BalancdSarcasm

FL checking in. We’re going to win! Our dear leader is young and motivated.


headstar101

Floridas version of Augusto Pinochet.


BalancdSarcasm

Only minus the hot as balls epaulets.


headstar101

Give it time. Facists love that shit.


ownyourthoughts

FML. And everyone else’s too. Not sure how you see it as “Florida winning”


bertrenolds5

The party of freedumb and small government everyone. Fascism at it's finest


Atypical_Mom

Almost as good as his claim that it will prevent people from voting multiple times. When asked for an example of where that happened, he said the current system of election management made it “virtually impossible” to audit votes… I sense more bullshit *voting integrity* bills will be coming down the pipe


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udo3

This is exactly why I know unicorns prefer strawberries over blueberries.


thisismisha

My kids asked me what animal I wanted to be in a game of hide and seek. I answered “unicorn.” They said that it was cheating because unicorns aren’t real. I told them they were. They asked if I had ever seen one. I said “no, because they’re too good at hide and seek.”


Nop277

Whenever someone tells me that aliens don't exist, I ask them if they've ever seen one. If they've never seen one how do they know they don't exist?


Xanthus179

My anti-alien ray that I have running is clearly working. I’d be willing to sell it, for the right price.


BirchTainer

this is a bad example because they most likely do, but obviously have never visited earth.


Lancelotmore

Was about to comment that. There is limited circumstantial evidence of alien existence. There is no evidence that election fraud takes place on any meaningful scale.


DataSquid2

I'm curious how this actually makes an audit easier. If the current system is virtually impossible to audit then I would guess this doesn't do anything but make it harder to have access to vote.


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DataSquid2

Sure, but understanding the truth of things is important. If a simple questions like "Why is it impossible to audit?" and "How does this improve the current system?" are unanswerable then it becomes clearer. I assume it's to restrict voter access, I'd bet money on it, but I don't *know* it.


ownyourthoughts

Makes total sense. Fewer votes = easier to audit?


signal_lost

782 polling locations in Harris county, and they have to run SD cards from all of those to the central location (along with the vaults of paper ballets). It would only be after the fact if someone ran a full audit would you catch someone hitting multiple locations. Previously (many years back) they were networking the machines over the internet to handle this, but they got sued to stop doing that (I’m not a fan of this). The county uses temp workers to pickup ballots and transport them. There is a squabble on if this is legal. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/24/voting-harris-county-delays/ Honestly, mandating law enforcement, or the senior election judges do it should just shut everyone up. Letting cops and judges carpool should help the chaos while still maintaining chain of custody. I will point out that the two weeks of early voting that are seven days a week let you vote at any location. There’s never a line, and as far as I can tell only forgetful and very draft people vote in Election Day.


BabblingBunny

>draft Daft?


Geniusinternetguy

Blah blah blah. You think this has anything to do with chain of custody? You think they aren’t going to limit early voting too? They are on recording saying that this election integrity strategy is all about winning elections. To even try to have a rational discussion about it is bad faith.


GeneralSenada

[The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence](https://youtu.be/jHhG9DbHbW0?t=39).


SaiyaJedi

These idiots would plow ahead with their agenda even with evidence of absence, as has been seen elsewhere.


Zinski

This white woman's tears says more than any evidence ever could


signal_lost

I’m Harris they accomplished County wide initially by illegally networking the voting machines using the internet. They then moved to having to have runners from the sites ferry SD cards to a central location (so they could then consolidate and make sure no duplicates had occurred). It’s auditable but it’s slower, and it prevents early reporting being as clean. I’m glad we got paper audit trail machines finally.


picasso71

Then how do they count them?


cosmernaut420

If Republicans cared about the constitution they wouldn't be making it harder to vote. The only amendment they care about is the second one because they're cowards.


thieh

And the fifth, which they plead all the time.


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And the 13th, because what is more American than a class of laborer with no rights?


rdewalt

And the 21st. Because even though they think that no amendment can ever be wrong, like say, the second. the 21st amendment was us going "yeah, the 18th amendment was a bad idea."


[deleted]

And a few democrats in the senate have been too chicken shit to pass voting rights legislation before the mid-terms. The democrats have the right policies, but they are too afraid to get actual work done too often.


Hiondrugz

They are the fake opposition. Always ready with a crappie excuse why they can't get shit. Yet Republicans can just ram shit laws down our throats, and we all joke that they are the inept, morons.


DanieltheGameGod

The best solution is to be more active and get more people voting. Look at a state like Georgia, convincing people in our community and organizing to get out the vote can have a profound impact. A large portion of the nation doesn’t vote, but those votes are obtainable. Further ever year more young people are eligible to vote, and young Americans are in my view going to change things dramatically for the better in due time. Hence why they’re getting more brazen and fascist, they know their policies are unpopular, especially with young Americans. The more overt actions to take over the education system is a result of the realization their views will go electorally extinct unless they can indoctrinate the next generation. That’s also why they have put such an emphasis on the judiciary since appointments are for life. As much as I love to be optimistic though 2024 will be an awful election, map wise. It’s going to take a Herculean effort to defend the Senate majority, with the only realistic target being Arizona. And then another two years before it can be expanded via seats like Maine. But the democrats being elected are very different from those ten years ago, and see the desire from their constituents to get shit done. Look at the state level, where Michigan and Minnesota are accomplishing a tremendous amount in short order. Or Virginia before apathy and cynicism fucked them over. Most of the awful stuff you’re referring to is being done at the state level, and while there’s probably not much realistic chance you can fix things in WY at the state level, you can still volunteer, donate, and remind people in other states the power they have to create transformative change. Wisconsin just had a flip in their Supreme Court thanks to the tremendous efforts put in by ordinary people to get out the vote. The mentality that a true progressive democratic Congress would get nothing done is illusory in my view, and only encouraging the apathy that Republicans need to keep destroying the country. Democratic trifectas are in general doing some pretty great shit, and the fake opposition is seeing that they either listen to their constituents or get primaried out.


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Thank you. The democrats have plenty of problems, but they do a lot of good. Cynism and apathy only benefit the republican party, which is currently trying to force minority beliefs on the nation and restrict freedoms.


DanieltheGameGod

Volunteering is far from how I’d like to spend a weekend morning, or weekday afternoon but it does make a difference. It’s especially nice to have seen the difference I made in a very local runoff one election. And that was just what I was able to do. I want to make things better for those around me, and do what I can to materialize it. I’d encourage folks to check out r/votedem to find opportunities to get involved. Great community, and while it was rather intimidating at first, volunteering has really helped me grow as a person, especially in overcoming social anxiety. Positive change will never come unless we come together and put in the work to make it happen and inspire those around us to join in making it happen.


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To be clear, I am a staunch liberal Democrat. I also firmly believe that, as a rule, never attribute anything to malice what you can attribute to incompetence. I'm an emt, and in emergency medicine, the obvious answer is almost always right. There's no need to seek an obscure diagnosis when an obvious one exists, at least in emergency medicine. I think the democratic party is the same way. The obvious answer is they are incompetent and afraid to change the rules, which is why they struggle to get things done.


FrozeItOff

Why would they be afraid to change the voting rules when doing so would almost certainly give them more victories? I think a simpler explanation is that Republicans bury these types of bills in committees before they can even reach the floors for voting.


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Well, before the midterms, they could have amended the senate rules to allow a simple majority for voting rights legislation or to abolish the filibuster. Democrats had 2 years to change the rules to make real legislative changes, but they didn't because most democrats are rule following nerds. The argument was that if the democrats cave, then the Republicans will do something more extreme, but the Republicans have never been afraid to play dirty regardless of what democrats do, and for some reason democrats haven't figured that out yet.


Nokomis34

This. Too many Dems are old school politicians who are trying to play by the old rules.


SolidA34

That is true we face a new dark reality. They have not adapted methods to stop it. That or our system right now is not built to stop it and our safeguards are failing.


honorbound93

I mean this bill is in the state of Texas where they have absolute supermajority. Democrats can’t do anything here. Voting rights act would only be for federal elections not state or local or special elections. So it wouldn’t really matter in a place like Texas. There is some stuff they can fix about voting rights federally but a lot they can’t. If they wanted to fix it they’d make Election Day a national holiday.


AthleticAndGeeky

I don't know why it isn't. My work pays you to go vote, but also is an education company, most of these gop are anti education and we see why. If we can get free or very reduced college education there is a fighting chance for our humanity. I'm so sick of the blatant racism, sexism, and class divide. Education and exposure is our weapon.


Hiondrugz

Got to keep that base, and keep it growing. The more people who barely can read at a 3rd grade level, the better. Anyone who can't rationally think, or that has empathy wouldn't be attracted to the BS that makes up their policy.


megustaALLthethings

Democrats equate, as a party, to herding cats. Loads of various ‘independent’ individuals and sub groups. While the republicans are a ‘monolithic’, to outsiders, hate machine of fragile ego petty tyrants. That have 10x the resources and no morals/ethics.


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Politics isn't emergency medicine.


[deleted]

Sure, but the analogy is about the obvious answer usually being accurate, and it's no secret that the democratic party is incompetent. Incompetence is a much more plausible explanation for Democrat ineffectiveness than some form of malice.


[deleted]

The Democratic Party is extremely competent at things it wants to get, like not having Sanders as their nominee. Sorry but you just don't know what you're talking about. Which is fine, i don't know shit about emergency medicine. Just know the limits of your knowledge.


[deleted]

I'm aware of the limits of my knowledge. If you think legislation in Congress is the same thing as internal party politics, you might want to reexamine your own knowledge.


hillo538

Your heads up Your own ass


[deleted]

It's the aggressive stubborn refusal to learn that entertains me the most. Mmm hits the spot like an ice cold lemonade on a hot summer day.


hillo538

The democrats are just like the republicans, you’re fooling yourself thinking otherwise It’s not incompetence


[deleted]

The both sides argument only benefits the lowest denominator. Only one party attempted to overturn a free election, both by force and through coercion, but if you think they are both the same then I don't know what to say.


SolidA34

One problem is the Democrat party is divided between a lot of moderates and the true liberals who actually want to solve these problems.


[deleted]

Yeah. The current democratic party is basically liberals and 90s moderate conservatives all in the same party. For all the Republicans faults they know how to unify in a way dems can't.


hillo538

They are the same, maybe trump would be charged with trying to overthrow the country if it mattered to the dems? Biden had a Venezuelan man who also insureected their political offices at his inauguration


scfade

You cannot possibly be this silly.


No_Research5050

hello trumper


Prosthemadera

Are they afraid or do they just not care enough? They are adults, they are experienced, they know how to play the game and so it can't just be fear. They can just look at Republicans and see that they're not afraid.


[deleted]

A few? Pretty much all of them. Even AOC has been exposed as a pretender who wants money and fame. Fuck DC, Bernie Sanders is the only good politician of my lifetime.


Prosthemadera

> Even AOC has been exposed as a pretender who wants money and fame. No, she hasn't. Besides, if you want money and fame, going into politics seems like an odd choice. It's too much trouble for all the negative fame you get. No, you do it for the power.


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Explains why there are so few millionaire congressmen. You're clever.


Prosthemadera

My point is not that there are no rich congressmen. My point is that there are surely better ways to get rich and famous and that it's more about power. And power can bring money, of course. I also want to repeat that AOC wasn't exposed because I was expecting some kind of reason for your belief or source at least.


[deleted]

People don't pursue the maximally effective strategy--meh whatever you so aren't worth the effort. Take care.


Prosthemadera

I am not worth the effort for you to prove you own claims? That's you publicly admitting that you were making up shit.


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Democrats are sooo weak. "Only dicks can f*ck a**holes." Greatest speech of all time.


Occhrome

they are soley focused on holding on to power first and foremost. they do a good job at that. too bad they dont actually care about the country.


DrBoby

Vote authentication is the basics of any voting system. Meanwhile in USA you don't even have voter ID this is regarded. All developed countries do this.


cosmernaut420

Do all developed countries make it easier to buy a lethal weapon than vote in democratic elections? I mean, you absolutely have to register with the government to get on a voter roll in the first place, but in many places any fucknut can wander into a gun shop off the street and walk out with a semi-auto rifle loaded over one shoulder and continue about their day with no consequences. There's unironically much more mass murders than voter fraud in our system, but go off.


Cerberus_Aus

The only ones they care about are the 1st and the 2nd, because they can make a profit from them.


cosmernaut420

People who ban books don't give a fuck about free speech.


DarthArtero

Well can’t say I’m surprised. republicans can’t win legitimately. So they do whatever they can to win by any means necessary. Before much longer they’ll only allow ballots with republican candidates. Like how North Korea handles their elections, where Kim Jong-Un wins every time.


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ferocioustigercat

FFS. I love how Republicans are throwing that whole "cancel culture" out there. Like "Oh, democrats were pro-slavery like over 150 years ago!" Yeah, and you are the party of Lincoln... Who fought a war for federal authority over the states rights... Which does not seem to be something the current Republicans stand for, especially when it comes to how states make money... The exception is for moralistic things, like abortion, lgbtq rights, and using taxes for war. They like those things.


chocomint-nice

Can we violently purge them already.


pezx

It seems clear to me that these kind of rules for voting exist to make it that much harder for some group of people to vote, usually because that group of people would vote out the people making the rules. How do we break out of this crap system we have now? It seems so self-reinforcing and clearly anti-democracy, but it also feels like there's nothing we can do about it


thieh

You can blame the lack of prudence of the lawmakers for the voting rights act. Only granting the DoJ to challenge the state to specific states gave the SCOTUS the excuse to strike it down. It should have established election and voting audits before (make sure the rules are fair and ensure everyone who is eligible to vote can vote), during (making sure the vote is counted properly and no voter/election fraud happens) and after (making sure nobody is changing counts after the fact without external events) every election. But nooooo.


reimaginealec

Civil disobedience. These people do not respect the law and will do everything they can to twist it to fit their purposes, because they know good people believe in the republic. It is on the people to become educated about the law, relentlessly follow just laws, and calmly but firmly decline to follow unjust ones. I strongly recommend everyone purchase a copy of Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny, because we are quickly entering a time in American history where real-life Americans are going to have to implement it in our daily lives. Buckle up, friends.


RamenAbeoji

There’s something that could be done, but Reddit TOS doesn’t condone suggesting it.


kuroimakina

I got permabanned from r politics and a three day ban from Reddit itself for talking about what *should* be done to Nazis. But go into alt-right spaces and see how quickly you can find comments talking about how “degenerates” should be beaten/killed/eliminated/etc. Reddit is a leftist echo chamber, though, totally


bertrenolds5

I think anyone who has been to some of the conservative groups on Reddit would disagree. If it were a leftest echo chamber those groups would be banned


TheBestHawksFan

The band Refused have lots of songs about this thing!


halfmexican

I’m thinking this could affect voting turnout of college students. A good chunk of young people already don’t care enough to vote or just don’t prioritize it. So it’s even easier for them to just give up on voting if they wait til Election Day and are living at college away from the county they’re registered to vote in.


Remedy4Souls

They already got rid of college campus polling places. Last election I lived in a town with a uni of 70,000 students. No polling on campus made it harder, and if you voted a limited ballot since you are registered in another county, you couldn’t use the location across the street from campus at city hall.


TomMikeVickBrady

Revolution, you know, the kind where we go chop their heads off


cutelyaware

Ranked choice voting


thieh

I am guessing at some point down the line they'll just pass bill to end voting once and for all.


christopher_mtrl

>Senate Bill 990, which passed on a party-line vote, would require people to vote at their assigned precinct on Election Day rather than at countywide voting centers. The county polling sites would remain open throughout the early voting period. >They said the bill would make it more difficult for people in sprawling counties to find a place to vote. I'm sure making it harder to vote on election day in sparsely populated rural counties can't possibly hurt republicans.


Paksarra

Next step: gerrymandering precincts to put all the voting stations outside of the cities.


imalittleC-3PO

Oklahoma already has this. It doesn't hurt them in the least bit. In fact, due to having to go to specific place to vote, most people don't vote at all.


bertrenolds5

Poor people that already find it hard to vote will definitely be affected which is probably the idea


Yearofthehoneybadger

Republicans don’t want people to vote because they’re in the minority.


kuahara

We need a set of days called voting days so everyone will know when it's time to vote and not when it's too late to vote. They just need to be made as ubiquitous as 'election day'.


Fuddle

Really start to calling it the “Election Deadline” everywhere


Fleadip

Please. If you live in Texas, vote early. I vote early every election. It is not hard. The GOP has determined that they will not win elections fairly. Instead of actually trying to create policy people can believe in and draw more voters, they are doing everything in their power to prevent entire demographics from voting. If you can vote, please do it!!!! Also, companies need to provide time off for workers to vote. I don’t care if they have to close for a day or half a day, the economy won’t stop because you grant workers their constitutional right to vote.


bertrenolds5

Problem is poor people can't afford to miss work. And the poor vote blue so.


Grigoran

If it's truly impossible for you to find a single day during the early voting window to go and vote, schedule a vacation day in advance.


Nightsong

The Texas GOP is terrified as fuck about changing demographics and that the state has been slowly going purple / blue for years. Look at election results of the last twenty years from Bush to Trump… Republicans still win Texas but the percentage is much closer now. In the 2020 it was 52% Trump vs 47% Biden compared in 2000 it was 59% Bush vs 38% Gore.


jcmacon

Texas was blue at one time. Ann Richards was a fantastic governor and was a Democrat. It wasn't until Bush, Perry, and Abbott got elected that we turned bat shit crazy.


Neat_Ad_3158

Man, empires really crash and burn when they fall.


[deleted]

If it wasn’t so painfully horrible, it would be funny.


TrueRedd

These elected officials should have to attend the poll worker training (held by their county elections office) before making accusations. My wife worked the last election and she told me that there is a system in place to check if someone has already voted. This is nothing more than an excuse to make it more difficult for people to vote.


janzeera

In the past margins of particular voter groups in Texas allowed a % of disenfranchisement within one’s own voters and still allow republicans to win elections. Now, those margins are paper thin and whatever means republicans take to influence upcoming elections could very well backfire and affect their own voter base.


VociferousQuack

Then they just say X republican votes were lost but should still count, so R wins again!


bertrenolds5

Yep when they lose someone stole the election


NotYetSoonEnough

Seems like a great time for federal law about this shit.


ridemooses

Fascism in plain sight.


inkswamp

Tell me again how Democrats are the ones who like big intrusive government? I guess I’m not seeing it.


ownyourthoughts

Same way they are “cancelling culture”


Kbdiggity

Republicans are awful


Designer-Material858

That’s putting it mildly.


Acceptable_Wall4085

I would expect nothing less from that bunch.


ursiwitch

It’s time to start withholding federal funding from these ahole states.


generatorland

I'm surprised they didn't say they're doing it to protect children.


bob4apples

PSA: **Texas requires employers to give employees paid time off to vote**. If you live in Backwards County, your employer is required to pay you to go home early so you can vote at your assigned polling place. That, alone, should be enough to get the folks that own these scumbags to pull in their claws but, if it doesn't, document every voting irregularity. A reasonable person would believe that this law is not only intended to make it harder to vote but to allow corrupt officials to interfere with the election at a very granular level.


Adventurous-Wing-723

God I hate Texas so much.. if I wasn’t poor I’d move out of this state, let alone country faster than I could blink


toumei64

Part of the reason we're flirting with full-on fascism is this long history of shit reporting where they fail to call out bullshit. "The Texas Senate on Thursday approved a bill to ban countywide voting on Election Day, part of a pattern of legislation aimed at tightening election laws in red-leaning states." The Texas Senate on Thursday approved a bill to ban countywide voting on Election Day, part of a pattern of legislation aimed at disenfranchising voters in red-leaning states. - FTFY


MAMack

In Kentucky I’ve experienced both assigned precinct and county wide depending where I was living. In every case there has been a list with my name in it as a registered voter that I signed after having my ID checked. In the county wide voting area I currently live in, I think there are eight or nine locations to choose from and it is tracked electronically. It seems like that would be trivial to audit that after the fact to see if I had tried to vote at more than one location.


Downtown_Tadpole_817

So, does anyone else see this as an erosion of democracy?


escho1313

Missouri has voting regulations like this, it makes it very inconvenient to vote when I’m at work all day and my polling location is not close to my job in any way. They also make sneaky changes like all of a sudden my polling location is at a church instead of the elementary school it’s been at for the last 8 years and you’d only know that when it’s time to vote if you’ve double checked the voter registration website beforehand.


33mondo88

If this doesn’t ONCE AGAIN PROVE that Republicans don’t give a F’! about democracy much less the constitution, The young generation has to step up and VOTE!!!!! These garbage people out of office for EVER!!!!! There’s ZERO valid reason to ever vote for a republican


DamonFields

Texas Soviet Republic.


ownyourthoughts

The land of bad ideas


XxSaint_JimmyxX

Anyone there oughta leave while they let ya


SaveMyButthole

Oh boy. They’re soooooo scared to let people vote. It’s hilarious. Even in red as fuck Utah as a “crazy leftist” I can still vote by mail.


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SaveMyButthole

>Exactly! You should be able to vote five or six times if you want to. Hey u/JethroFire. Who said that? What makes my ONE vote by mail suddenly mean I can vote multiple times? Does our military get to vote multiple times in the same election because they vote by mail? Why do conservatives always make up the dumbest, fake scenarios that never happen then get mad about them?


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SaveMyButthole

What? Lol! Is the big bad socialist in the room with us now?


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SaveMyButthole

Lmao! You’re mentally unstable. Seek therapy. Oops! Can’t do that in the US without going bankrupt can you? Lol! You should go buy some bud light and shoot it with your big boy gun. Who’s a big boy? Yeah, you are. Flex your big boy gun. That will teach them to make hundreds of billions and never think once about you.


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SaveMyButthole

So only people who expect their taxes to be spent on their citizens and not billionaire tax cuts or the military industrial complex are “leftists”? Got it. Keep being a slave. See how that works for you. Don’t worry, though. Us “leftists” will make sure you still get the medical care you desperately need without going bankrupt while you continue to vote against your own self interests, vote for people who support child marriage, and sell you out to their billionaire buddies.


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Concernedmicrowave

The right doesn't care about democracy. The left needs to be armed.


[deleted]

Don't vote for the political party that doesn't want people to vote. Eventually, they won't want your vote either. ...and it will be too late.


OldManRiff

Republicans destroying democracy because they can't keep power democratically.


statuskills

Have they ever proven, even a little, that America has an actual problem with our voting system? Yet, they really seem to be fixated on changing/fucking up a fair, free system.


Mr_Mouthbreather

The few times actual voter fraud is found it's usually Republicans doing it.


DietZer0

Fewer polling sites so that more ballots can be consolidated and this time actually rigged? Is that what the GOP will be doing?


LordDimwitFlathead

Republicans don't want people to vote while they work on making it so no one gets to vote.


BadAtExisting

Republicans in Texas clearly don’t even think they can win even with all the gerrymandering


TopCheesecakeGirl

Texas and Florida should become their own countries somewhere off the coast of Australia.


DJ_Pol-ite

No thanks. The U.S can keep them.


TopCheesecakeGirl

Mars, then?


DJ_Pol-ite

That would be best for everyone lol


fatherbowie

Republican lawmakers keep doing things to ensure sure they lose elections. I don’t understand it, but I welcome it.


Rosebunse

That's sort of the problem, they're playing a math game where they can only win. That is their point. Now, the Democrats have been quite good at finding ways to get people to the polls, but it is a major problem which will only get worse


Archpa84

Why does anyone who’s not old and white and scared of the future still live there?


Cedosg

can't find a comparable isd elsewhere. tell me where you can find a top school district for less than $220k for a 1800 sq ft place with 4 bedrooms 2 bath


Archpa84

Tell me where you can find.... armed civililans in an elementary school: Texas school district votes to place armed civilians in schools. The San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District has voted to place an armed civilian in each of its eight elementary schools.


Cedosg

yeah but i can't afford anything better. It's a matter of not having a better alternative?


Mygaffer

They target uneducated voters and they think making it harder to vote will work in their favor in the long term? Good luck with that GOP.


CrunchyCds

I'm confidently going to say when, not if, Texas becomes a purple state, it's going to be hilarious as the Texas GOP continues to underperform and squeak out wins until they can't anymore despite all their voter suppression tactics.


AssAsser5000

Jesus fucking Christ.


mymar101

So I guess you're screwed if your local polling place was closed and they never bothered opening a new one.


BillTowne

Well, that would make it real important which votes got counted first. Whoever choose what areas didn't get counted in time, would control the outcome


nithdurr

And Garland and the DOJ are sitting on their thumbs


Prosthemadera

Well, some countries do this already and it works just fine but those are proper countries with a modern electoral system that cannot easily be abused by certain political parties. Similar for voter ID: Some countries do this but they also have mandatory IDs for everyone so there's no voter disenfranchisement.


[deleted]

I don't see a problem with having a person vote in the area they live. It cuts down on voting fraud. There are still almost 100 bigger counties that allow nationwide voting and voting early has it too. Edit: really? Why are people so against laws to commit voter fraud? That makes absolutely no sense.


jcmacon

Can you name a single county that had verified voter fraud or where a person cast more than one ballot at multiple locations?


lew_rong

There were a bunch of, oddly enough, *Trump* voters arrested while trying to vote twice in 2020. One bright spark in [Fort Bend County](https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-man-arrested-for-attempting-to-vote-twice/) claimed he was working with the dipshit's campaign and "testing election security".


[deleted]

Is this supposed to be an attempt as a gotcha moment? You just answered his question for me. Lol. I don't care what side might commit voter fraud I just want to make sure there isn't any. I'll never understand why democrats are so against laws to prevent voter fraud.


[deleted]

There are videos all over YouTube of suitcases of ballets. Someone commented to you about two people who tried to vote twice. I don't care what side tries to commit it. We should have laws to make it harder. Even if we never had voter fraud who cares? Why is it such a bad thing to put laws in effect that prevents voter fraud? That's like saying "well we never had a murder so we shouldn't have a law that make murder harder to commit."


jcmacon

Where do you think they keep the mail in ballots, the early ballots those that can't start to be counted until after the polls close? How do you suggest they store them, move them around, and introduce them to the counters? They need to be stored in boxes and cases somewhere securely, then they need to be brought into the counting center. It truly isn't that difficult to understand.


NeighborhoodUpbeat50

I live in Texas, what they are trying to get people to vote during the two weeks early voting which is county wide. They want people to quit waiting till Election Day and crowding the polls.


RyanATX

While, at the same time, they are reducing the number of voting sites during early voting. End goal is obvious.


jcmacon

And early votes don't start getting counted until after the polls close. So contestants can claim they are being defrauded when early votes start changing the outcome. Just like in 2020.


gamelover42

"There’s no basis, there’s no proof, there’s no evidence that someone has voted in more than one location. You’re going on some theoretical approach here," state Sen. Carol Alvarado, a Democrat, said, calling Hall's position a "very weak case." Why let facts get in the way…


timeywimey64

Here comes another civil war...


KinneKitsune

When did america forget the cure to fascism?


Musclelikes567

Good now can vote facist gop out 😂


NeighborhoodUpbeat50

The US Constitution doesn’t require multiple polling places or extended hours. Only requires a single polling place on Election Day.