Regarding disenfranchisement... I last registered to vote in Texas 21 years ago when I was job hunting there. I since moved back to Germany to work but voted absentee in Texas every year. About ten years ago the county (administratively mostly red) decided that I needed to register every year. OK.
Beginning about five years ago I would register early in January and they would reject my registration as being out of date, and send me a new form. I would complete the new form (exactly the same as the previously rejected one) and return it, and they would accept it and send me ballots for all federal elections (as an expat I can't vote in local elections). OK
This year they accepted my registration in early January, declined it late in January and sent me a new registration form which I returned, and they never replied. So I sent them another via email last week and am waiting. There is a federal election in early May, a month from now and mail takes three weeks to get here, and three weeks to return. Not OK.
Anybody besides me think this is voter suppression (I register as a Democrat)?
Anybody know how to cancel out of that shithole and re-register in a blue state where my vote will not doubt be better spent?
When the voter line is long enough to leave the balloting venue proper, how the fuck can giving food and water be illegal (most lively place is on a curb hundreds of yards from the actual voting site)?
No idea how to re-register somewhere else. But can I suggest trying another red state? Blue states are in less need of your vote, and some don't require you to note party affiliation.
Can chips and a drink really flip someone's vote? Even if you upgrade to Perrier and organic Kettle chips, the cash value is still less than $5.
How does this even work if the voter eats the bag of chips first before the vote? They get a free snack, and then votes anyway they want. All the legislature has to do is make such an agreement an "unenforceable contract".
I have always been annoyed that the personality traits that lead us to be left/democratic such as empathy/questioning and understanding attitudes also limit us from ever having the party unity that any authoritarian party has.
I have to disagree here. Although fascism must be fought on many fronts, the political parties that did not fight back in the 1930s learned a very painful lesson.
But not as much as tomorrow...
They know me by now.
It just doesn't occur to them that they could hand out water themselves. For some (RACIST) odd (RACIST) reason.
“This law has always been the law"
That's called an argumentum ad antiquitum, and it is a logical fallacy. Ie, a bad argument.
Regarding disenfranchisement... I last registered to vote in Texas 21 years ago when I was job hunting there. I since moved back to Germany to work but voted absentee in Texas every year. About ten years ago the county (administratively mostly red) decided that I needed to register every year. OK.
Beginning about five years ago I would register early in January and they would reject my registration as being out of date, and send me a new form. I would complete the new form (exactly the same as the previously rejected one) and return it, and they would accept it and send me ballots for all federal elections (as an expat I can't vote in local elections). OK
This year they accepted my registration in early January, declined it late in January and sent me a new registration form which I returned, and they never replied. So I sent them another via email last week and am waiting. There is a federal election in early May, a month from now and mail takes three weeks to get here, and three weeks to return. Not OK.
Anybody besides me think this is voter suppression (I register as a Democrat)?
Anybody know how to cancel out of that shithole and re-register in a blue state where my vote will not doubt be better spent?
When the voter line is long enough to leave the balloting venue proper, how the fuck can giving food and water be illegal (most lively place is on a curb hundreds of yards from the actual voting site)?
What day is it today? Why, it's "I-still-hate-these-fucking-assholes-day"!!!
I agree this sounds like voter suppression.
No idea how to re-register somewhere else. But can I suggest trying another red state? Blue states are in less need of your vote, and some don't require you to note party affiliation.
Don't worry; they won't fund them adequately enough to allow them to hand out anything.
Because its 2 more days of "I-still-hate-these-fucking-assholes-day" until "I-really hate-these-fucking-assholes-weekend"
I believe that was what Florida did with no water to any voter in line. I guess we could make a preline for water and then a new line for voting?
Can chips and a drink really flip someone's vote? Even if you upgrade to Perrier and organic Kettle chips, the cash value is still less than $5.
How does this even work if the voter eats the bag of chips first before the vote? They get a free snack, and then votes anyway they want. All the legislature has to do is make such an agreement an "unenforceable contract".
I have always been annoyed that the personality traits that lead us to be left/democratic such as empathy/questioning and understanding attitudes also limit us from ever having the party unity that any authoritarian party has.
of course, the GOP legislature won't provide any money to local election officials to buy water and food for people waiting in line.
I have to disagree here. Although fascism must be fought on many fronts, the political parties that did not fight back in the 1930s learned a very painful lesson.
Yes. They do.